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Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

Charlotte Bronte

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 mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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Answers Hand Rochester
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
You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you; because you never felt love. You have both sentiments yet to experience: your soul sleeps; the shock is yet to be given which shall waken it.
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Love Missing Sleep
as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many.
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Hearty Hope Kindness
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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Force Gentleness Potent
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Degradation Poverty Synonymous
Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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Flirt Flirty Sex Trade
You transfix me quite.
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Life Person Quiet Transmix
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 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
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
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 have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
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Faces Look World
The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,–and to speak.
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Grief Love Struggle
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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First Recognise Saw

Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.

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