Don't get the expression of a vicious cur that appears to know the kicks it gets are its desert, and yet hates all the world, as well as the kicker, for what it suffers.
("Wuthering Heights")
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I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.Emily Bronte
What I love shall come like visitant of air,
Safe in secret power from lurking human snare;
What loves me, no word of mine shall e'er betray,
Though for faith unstained my life must forfeit pay.
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It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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Honest people don't hide their deeds.
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Is Mr. Heathcliff a man If so, is he mad And if not, is he a devil I sha'n't tell my reasons for making this inquiry but I beseech you to explain, if you can, what I have married . . .
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I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours beyond you.
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