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

Charlotte Bronte

I have no wish to talk nonsense.” “If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Grave Mistake Talk Wish
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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Moon Volcanoes White
Oh madam, when you put bread and cheese, instead of burnt porridge, into these children’s mouths, you may indeed feed their vile bodies, but you little think how you starve their immortal souls!
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Children Soul Think
I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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Circumstance Give Self Soul
I have no wish to talk nonsense.” “If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.
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Grave Mistake Quiet Wish
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Genuine Sleep Tact
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Depressing Difficult Page
You transfix me quite.
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Innovation Quite Transfix
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
Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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Life Nursing Together
It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Love Obey Wicked
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
No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure.
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Happiness Sound World
I am no bird and no net ensnares me
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Bird Country Ensnare Person
If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed.
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Amaze Little Men
Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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Fairy Said Whispering

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

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