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There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Charlotte Bronte

I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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Impossible Natural Think
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Degradation Poverty Synonymous
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
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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First Recognise Saw
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mean Stone Vision
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
It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Love Obey Wicked
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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Force Gentleness Potent
And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Answers Done Knock Left
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?
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Arm Lamb Shepherds
There is nothing I fear so much as idleness, the want of occupation, inactivity, the lethargy of the faculties; when the body is idle, the spirit suffers painfully.
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Body Occupation Suffering
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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First Ignite People Require
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
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
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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Almost Feel Monotony
Jane Eyre “I desired more…than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn’t help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
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Blame Disconnect Help Pain

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

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