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Sunset (in fact a bit after sunset) on the Aresquiers beach
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly?
Emily Brontë
— Emily Brontë
Novelist
"Love and Friendship", st. 1

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Emily Brontë
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"Love and Friendship", st. 1
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Photo: Christian Ferrer · CC BY 4.0 · source · Portrait: Branwell Brontë (1817–1848) (Public domain)

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