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Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Approximate author period: c. 1833 AD · industrial
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- Emily Bronte
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- Approximate author period: c. 1833 AD · industrial
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Emily Bronte: recorded author lifetime 1818–1848. Source: https://edsverb.com/authors/emily-bronte (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is emily-bronte; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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