"Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness it has no taste.

. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.
~ Charlotte Brontë ~












. . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves.
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