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What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same cat...more

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I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.

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My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a va...more

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God surely did not create us, and cause us to live, with the sole end of wishing always to die. I believe, in my heart, we were intended to prize life...more

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Milton's Eve! Milton's Eve! ... Milton tried to see the first woman; but Cary, he saw her not ... I would beg to remind him that the first men of the ...more

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No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne.""I ask why? I must have a reason. In all respects he is more than worthy of you."She stood on the hearth;...more

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There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?""Are you a young lady?""I am a thousand...more

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If men could see us as we really are, they would be a little amazed; but the cleverest, the acutest men are often under an illusion about women: they ...more

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Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

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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 expect nor exact anything celesti...more

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I do not think, sir, you have any right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; yo...more