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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.

Charlotte Bronte

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
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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Amaze Little Men
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mean Stone Vision
You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.
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Flesh Husband Love Thing
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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First Recognise Saw
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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Hearty Hope Kindness
It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Love Obey Wicked
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
I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand – they only. Know this at last.
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Hand Heart Independence
I have for the first time found what I can truly love- I have found you. You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment.
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Angel Love Strong
Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.
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Alive Birth Cry Weak
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
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Feel Life Logic Thinking
Good-night, my-” He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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Good Left Necessity Night
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
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble

Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.

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