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Quotation from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
“I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it.”
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Author's Preface to the Second Edition (Project Gutenberg #969 (1920 John Murray edition))
Anne Brontë's statement of purpose in answer to reviewers who found her scenes of vice too painful.
Citation: "I wished to tell the truth, for truth always conveys its own moral to those who are able to receive it." — Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Author's Preface to the Second Edition (Project Gutenberg #969 (1920 John Murray edition)). (id the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall-q1)
Portrait: Anne Brontë by Patrick Branwell Brontë restored, Branwell Brontë, Public domain.
