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Charlotte Brontë
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither ex...
“It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to...
“If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under...
“It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.”
“I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen mo...
“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as m...
“Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and...
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
“No sight so sad as that of a naughty child," he began, "especially a naughty little girl. Do you know where the wicked ...
“There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition ...
“I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.”
“Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive.”
“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.""I am ...
“We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread...
“I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitments, aw...
“I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expressi...
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