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I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

Charlotte Bronte

Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before ‘the writing on the wall’ and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.
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Character Wall Writing
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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Independence Last Self
My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world – the … affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.
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Brother Home Humble
I doubt if I have made the best use of all my calamities. Soft, amiable natures they would have refined to saintliness; of strong, evil spirits they would have made demons; as for me, I have only been a woe-struck and selfish woman.
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Evil Refined Selfish Strong
Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.
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Day Earth First One
For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
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Kind Read Serious
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Genuine Sleep Tact
When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should – so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.
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Reason Strikes Struck
Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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Flirt Flirty Sex Trade
I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
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Hate Lying School
If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
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Foundation Friendship Sake
You transfix me quite.
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Innovation Quite Transfix
It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Love Obey Wicked
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Feel Life Logic Thinking
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
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Age Memories Year
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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Almost Feel Monotony

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you

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