It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
CHARLOTTE BRONTEThe trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
More Charlotte Bronte Quotes
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Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.” “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.
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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.
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I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand – they only. Know this at last.
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I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.
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Adversity is a good school.
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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy.” Mr. Rochester
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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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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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Shake me off, then, sir–push me away; for I’ll not leave you of my own accord.
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Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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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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