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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

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
Flirting is a woman’s trade, one must keep in practice.
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Flirt Flirty Sex Trade
That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure.
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Affection First Foundation
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?
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Arm Lamb Shepherds
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
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
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
I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?
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Arms Lamb Shepherd
It would not be wicked to love me.” “It would to obey you.
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Love Obey Wicked
He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
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First Recognise Saw
What you want to ignite in others must first burn inside yourself.
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First Ignite People Require
Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
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Genuine Sleep Tact
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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Hand Heart Independence
And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
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Answers Done Knock Left
I am no bird and no net ensnares me
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Bird Country Ensnare Person
Too often do reviewers remind us of the mob of Astrologers, Chaldeans, and Soothsayers gathered before ‘the writing on the wall’ and unable to read the characters or make known the interpretation.
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Character Wall Writing

A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

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A depressing and difficult passage has prefaced every page I have turned in life.

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