You transfix me quite.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEConventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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I am no bird and no net ensnares me
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Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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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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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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Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Rochester: I am to take mademoiselle to the moon, and there I shall seek a cave in one of the white valleys among the volcano-tops, and mademoiselle shall live with me there, and only me.
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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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Adversity is a good school.
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Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Shake me off, then, sir–push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.
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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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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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