What necessity is there to dwell on the Past, when the Present is so much surer-the Future so much brighter?
("Jane Eyre")
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I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful, happy accent.
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At eighteen most people wish to please, and the conviction that they have not an exterior likely to second that desire brings anything but gratification.
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Will he find love without lust's leaven,
Love fearless, tearless, perfect, pure,
To all with equal bounty given,
In all, unfeigned, unfailing, sure?
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It had formerly been my endeavor to study all sides of his character: to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad. The sarcasm that had repelled, the harshness that had startled me once, were only like keen condiments in a choice dish: their presence was pungent, but their absence would be felt as comparatively insipid.
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