The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those… — Emily Bronte

The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them.

Wuthering Heights · 1847
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Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, edited by Alexandra Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, ch. 11.
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Brontë, Emily, [published as Ellis Bell]. Wuthering Heights. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847, ch. 11.

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