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All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find,
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“All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find,”

Anne Brontë

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Agnes Grey
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1847
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Meaning of “All true histories contain instruction; though, in some,…”

Agnes opens her story by claiming that lived experience can teach, while immediately admitting that some narratives yield only modest lessons.

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Agnes Grey, Chapter I, “The Parsonage,” Project Gutenberg #767. The frozen catalog is the opening clause of the narrator’s longer first sentence, which continues that the instructional “treasure” may be hard to find. Agnes Grey is a fictional first-person narrator; the passage should not be presented as literal Anne Brontë autobiography.

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