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QUOTATION:It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
ATTRIBUTION:Charlotte Brontė (1816–1855), British novelist. Jane Eyre, ch. 12 (1847).
 
 
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