I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.
("Jane Eyre")
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For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.Charlotte Bronte
Sir, your wife is living; that is a fact acknowledged this morning by yourself. If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress; to say otherwise is sophistical -- is false.
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I'll walk where my own nature would be leading. It vexes me to choose another guide.
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To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.
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Poetry destroyed? Genius banished? No! Mediocrity, no: do not let envy prompt you to the thought. No; they not only live, but reign, and redeem: and without their divine influence spread everywhere, you would be in hell--the hell of your own meanness.
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I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would presently deal it.
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