Charlotte Bront Quotes

#1. I know my maker sanctions what I do. For the world's judgement - I wash my hands thereof. For man's opinion- I defy it

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#2. Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. - Helen Burns

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#3. You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.

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#4. It would take a great deal to crush me

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#5. I will tell you it is my neck you are putting in peril; for whatever is yours is, in a dearer and tenderer sense, mine.

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#6. Most things free-born will submit to anything for a salary.

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#7. But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?

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#8. And I do not want a stranger - unsympathising, alien, different from me; I want my kidred: those with whom I have a full fellow-feeling.

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#9. -Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is a skillful architect.
- And interest?
-yes, no doubt; it will be the cement between every stone!

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