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That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.

Charlotte Bronte

It is a pity that doing one’s best does not always answer.
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Answer Country People Thank
Mademoiselle is a fairy,” he said, whispering mysteriously.
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Fairy Said Whispering
Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
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Degradation Poverty Synonymous
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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Circumstance Give Self Soul
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
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
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
A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.
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Depressing Difficult Page
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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Bird Independent Struggle
I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly.
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Distance Understanding Year
I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind.
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Mean Stone Vision
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
Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
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Force Gentleness Potent
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
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Genuine Sleep Tact
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.
CHARLOTTE BRONTE

Morning Spring Summer

That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.

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