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Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights Quotes: It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!
         

It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!


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This page presents the quote "It is strange people should be so greedy when they are alone in the world!". Author of this quote is Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights. This quote is about human-nature, miserly, greed, greedy, strangeness,.