Bitter experience Quote by Charlotte Brontë

“What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like, and to have been taught by rough and bitter experience to long for the calm amidst which I now repined!” quote by Charlotte Brontë — Download Open image

““What good it would have done me at that time to have been tossed in the storms of an uncertain struggling like, and to have been taught by rough and bitter experience to long for the calm amidst which I now repined!””

Charlotte Brontë

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