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Adversity is a good school.

Charlotte Bronte

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Independence Last Self
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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Character Wall Writing
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.
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Morning Spring Summer
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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First Recognise Saw
I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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Almost Feel Monotony
Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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Flirt Flirty Sex Trade
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Depressing Difficult Page
You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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Faces Look World
I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance, gallantry, fascination but had I met those qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they had nor could have sympathy with anything in me.
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Fascinate Quality Shape
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Feel Life Logic Thinking
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
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
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Loneliness Lonely Single
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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Equality Freedom Women
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mean Stone Vision
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
Adversity is a good school.
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Adversity School Trouble

Adversity is a good school.

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