Life Too Short — Charlotte Brontë Quote Journal

You've kept a mental list of what your sister said at the wedding. It's been three years.

"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs."
— Charlotte Brontë
Helen Burns, in Jane Eyre, Chapter 6, 1847. We check every line against a primary source.

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Write the grudge down once. Then close the book on it.

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