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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

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.
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Grave Mistake Talk Wish
And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Answers Done Knock Left
You, Jane, I must have you for my own–entirely my own.
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Entire Own People World
All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the rest of me from your presence forever.
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Fate Forever Heart
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mean Stone Vision
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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First Ignite People Require
Your will shall decide your destiny.
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Decide Destiny Reason Result
Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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Fairy Said Whispering
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
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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Affection First Foundation
Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.
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Home Kindness Rochester
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 like to see flowers growing, but when they are gathered, they cease to please. I look on them as things rootless and perishable; their likeness to life makes me sad. I never offer flowers to those I love; I never wish to receive them from hands dear to me.
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Flower Hand Wish
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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Independence Last Self
I am no bird and no net ensnares me
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Bird Country Ensnare Person
My home is humble and unattractive to strangers, but to me it contains what I shall find nowhere else in the world – the … affection which brothers and sisters feel for each other.
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Brother Home Humble

Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.

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