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Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.

Charlotte Bronte

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 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
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
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
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.
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Age Memories Year
Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.
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Humanity Key Three
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
Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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Fairy Said Whispering
It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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Answer Country People Thank
If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!
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Spring Summer Sunshine
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
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Feel Life Logic Thinking
Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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Flirt Flirty Sex Trade
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
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
You transfix me quite.
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Innovation Quite Transfix
And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Answers Done Knock Left

Presentiments are strange things: and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not yet found the key.

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