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 catastrophe - marriage.

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ANTHONY DOERR You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE

Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
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RANDY HOUSER

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HEATHER GRAHAM

until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone
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ADAM RAPP When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in wh...
DAN O'BRIEN

Marriage equality is a term so ridiculous on its face that when you hear it mentioned, you would thi...
HENRY ROLLINS

Do you know what it’s like to like someone so much you can’t stand it and know that they’ll ne...
JENNY HAN You have two choices in life...Choice one is to be the same and be like everyone else...Choice two i...
JAZLYN ROEHL

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TONY LA RUSSA You don't know how I feel about you, but you know that I do. I from. I feel about you. Knowing that ...
KAYLA RAE Promise yourself the best is yet to come.
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OLIN THOMAS In the end they have the same amount of money but not to the financial-aid people.
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JOSE GARCIA

Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you...
LISA KLEYPAS

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MAX BARRY

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SUSANE COLASANTI I have girls sitting on the bench watching them cut through the lane. Then they go out and do the sa...
GREG WILT They want the rhetoric to end and they want to concentrate on what they do best.
ROBERT IGER I am for gay marriage. Or same-sex marriage. I don't want to say it the wrong way. I think peopl...
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ART FONICELLO

The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
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MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN

Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?"

"Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Mayb...
LEV GROSSMAN Same-sex marriage has not created problems for religious institutions; religious institutions have c...
DASHANNE STOKES I can promise you one thing, the Aussies are great competitors, and they'll all come in here with bi...
IAN BAKER

You understand why you must go through with this marriage.”
“You say you couldn’t live wi...
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BOB SAPP It was kind of the same situation. It was like, man, you feel like you're doing good, and they get t...
GREG ELLIS

I have not supported same-sex marriage. I have supported civil partnerships and contractual relation...
HILLARY CLINTON

I think there's a lot of similarity between what people try to do with religion with what they w...
BRIAN ENO

I am real, real picky with what I decided to do. I want to make sure it's new and at the same ti...
RYAN HURST It was scary to walk in there and see all those ropes hanging. It brought it to reality. It was like...
JEAN PRICE

People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on...
EVANDER HOLYFIELD

How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.
JULIAN BARNES We know they like to help kids and do the same things I like to.
JEFF DELLENBACH

..."But what I like doing best is Nothing." "How do you do Nothing?" asked Pooh, after he had wonder...
A.A. MILNE

I knew acting was what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was brilliant at it, but when I was doi...
JAMES CORDEN We do not ask those in traditional marriages to re-register their marriage in every jurisdiction to ...
JOE GRABARZ Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO In the end it doesn't matter what you do.
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE

Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of...
ABBY WAMBACH

I had not seen "Pride and Prejudice," till I read that sentence of yours, and then I got the book. A...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë They are not going to do the same thing. If they do, expect the same outcome. That's all I can say.
ALEX BROWN You think you've got a guy down, and he throws it 40 yards across the field, and you have to run tha...
COREY MCKEON

But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

It would take a great deal to crush me
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Californians have already seen one of their congressional representatives sent to prison in a briber...
KATE BEDINGFIELD You seldom listen to me, and when you do you don't hear, and when you do hear you hear wrong, and ev...
MARJORIE KELLOGG

Reasons... questions... what they have in common?

- All get finded in the hard way.
DEYTH BANGER

What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

Beauty and fashion are not really local anymore. You really have to be a global citizen to know what...
PRIYANKA CHOPRA

Jamie: Please don't pretend like you know me, ok?
Landon: But I do, I do. We've had all the sam...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

Love is free; to promise for ever to love the same woman is not less absurd than to promise to belie...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY

In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We ...
NOAM CHOMSKY

You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
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MICHAEL TULLOCH Everybody has a different answer. You hardly ever find anybody with the same choice, so we have to b...
JOEY CAREW

i have a friend request from some stranger on facebook and i delete it without looking at the profil...
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GARY F EVANS...

I think of it this way: When you hear that people have downloaded your comic, appreciate that thousa...
MARK WAID Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO

In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

I'm not someone who's generally kept the same hair color. I like to be able to change it. You know, ...
BRITTANY MURPHY

If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
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ERIC SMALL

It's not charity," I snap. "He cares about me--and I care about him!"

Warner nods, unimpr...
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MICHAEL MCKEAN

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AL GOLDSTEIN

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ERNIE ELS On the calendar, all days look the same, but they do not carry the same weight.
RICHARD PAUL EVANS

You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have ...
STEVE MARABOLI And, most importantly, knowing what we know now knowing the damage we did would we do the same thing...
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JOE MCHUGH

There are a lot of billionaires in Silicon Valley, but in the end, we are all heading to the same pl...
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MIKE STOOPS

Don’t keep your greatness; exhibit it to the admiration of all but note however also to keep your ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think some days he's feared. Much in the way Bill Gates has run Microsoft, particularly in the ear...
GREG VOGEL I think all the drug companies are behaving the same way and I think it's because they have to, ... ...
JOHN ABRAMSON

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I would always rather be happy than dignified.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë

Good-night, my-" He stopped, bit his lip, and abruptly left me.
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It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madn...
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Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.
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All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you; and with you it would remain, were fate to exile the ...
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never be...
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Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.
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Reader, I married him.
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If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and ab...
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I have for the first time found what I can truly love–I have found you. You are my sympathy–my b...
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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.
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Do you think I am an automaton? — a machine without feelings? and can bear to have my morsel of br...
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

No: I shall not marry Samuel Fawthrop Wynne."

"I ask why? I must have a reason. In all re...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand -- ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackl...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is hard work to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature; but that it may ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are no ruin sir--no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about you...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë She sang, as requested. There was much about love in the ballad: faithful love that refused to aband...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Your god, sir, is the World. In my eyes, you, too, if not an infidel, are an idolater. I conceive th...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë At that time, I well remember whatever could excite - certain accidents of the weather, for instance...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, my little darling (so I will call you, for so you are), you don't know what you are talking ab...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and ___" CHARLOTTE BRONTë No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not o...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë An odour of camphor and burnt vinegar warned me when I came near the fever room: and i passed its do...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obs...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am, as Miss Scatcherd said, slatternly; I seldom put, and certainly never keep, things in order; I...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The word book acted as a transient stimulus
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Cheerfulness, it would appear,
is a matter which depends fully as much on the state
of t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë As to the mouth, it delights at times in laughter; it is disposed to impart all that the brain conce...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Evening Solace

The human heart has hidden treasures,
In secret kept, in silence sea...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I mentally shake hands with you for your answer, despite its inaccuracy." Mr. Rochester
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And w...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tell me, now, fairy as you are, - can't you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My hopes were all dead --- struck with a subtle doom, such as, in one night, fell on all the first-b...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë To women who please me only by their faces, I am the very devil when I find out they have neither so...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I thank my Maker, that in the midst of judgment he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeeme...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Then my sole relief was to walk along the corridor of the third storey, backwards and forwards, safe...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? M...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a n...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And as for the vague something --- was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a designing or a desponding exp...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, but in which I deligh...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë To talk to each other is but a more animated and an audible thinking.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And what is hell? Can you tell me that?”
“A pit full of fire.”
“And should you lik...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am no bird, no net ensnares me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Conventionality is not morality.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I smiled: I thought to myself Mr. Rochester is peculiar — he seems to forget that he pays me £30 ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Do you like him much?'
I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so v...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And your will shall decide your destiny," he said: "I offer you my hand, my heart, and a share of al...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë [O]ur honeymoon will shine our life long: its beams will only fade over your grave or mine.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane: Mr. Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life-if ever I thought a good thought-if ever I...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë (...)because Miss Temple has generally something to say which is newer than my own reflections; her ...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I Believe she thought I had forgotten my station; and yours, sir.'

'Station! Station!-- y...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë What the deuce is to do now?
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My help had been needed and claimed; I had given it: I was pleased to have done something: trivial, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am not your dear; I cannot lie down: send me to school soon, Mrs. Reed, for I hate to live here.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë But what is so headstrong as youth? What so blind as inexperience?
CHARLOTTE BRONTë His presence in a room was more cheering than the brightest fire.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I am a free human being with an independent will."
Jane Eyre
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You transfix me quite.
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I will, in few words. You are cold, because you are alone: no contact strikes the fire from you that...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended noti...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Those who live in retirement, whose lives have fallen amid the seclusion of schools or of other wall...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Have you heard from his lordship lately?” I asked.

“Oh no! About six months ago I had...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are aba...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë ...[M]y inner self moved; my spirit shook its always-fettered wings half loose. I had a sudden feeli...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë For I too liked reading, thought of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shephe...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë As I exclaimed 'Jane! Jane! Jane!' a voice- I cannot tell whence the voice came, but I know whose vo...
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CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"

Reader, I forgave him ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It would take a great deal to crush me
CHARLOTTE BRONTë The standard heroes and heroines of novels, are personages in whom I could never, from childhood upw...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me - you seem to submit, and I like t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourse...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Rapidly, merrily,
Life's sunny hours flit by,
Gratefully, cheerily
Enjoy them as they...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I see you and St. John have been quarrelling, Jane,' said Diana, 'during your walk on the moor. But ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë My spirits were excited, and with pleasure and ease I talked to him during supper, and for a long ti...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Jane! will you hear reason?' (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) 'because, if you won't, ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise fo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Quando uma mulher sente desprezo pelo seu marido, o casamento passa a ser uma escravidão, e contra ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Detesto l’ardire, l’ardire che appartiene all’arrogante e all’insensibile, ma amo l’audaci...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I romanzieri non dovrebbero mai consentire a se stessi di stancarsi dell’indagine della vita reale...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He that is low need fear no fall.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë ...there were two gentleman seated by it talking in French;impossible to follow their rapid utteranc...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . for if we rarely taste the fulness of joy in this life, we yet more rarely savor the acrid bit...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë . . . still we are none of us perfect . . .
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I gave, at first, attention close;
Then interest warm ensued;
From interest, as improvem...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Qué terrible esfuerzo de dejar aquello que queremos
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Un hombre no puede olvidar la devoción que sentía por una mujer así, no debe ser, no puede ser
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It was her pleasure, her joy, to make me still the master in all things.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë -Let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructure; Mdlle Reuters is...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A man is master of himself to a certain point, but not beyond it. -William Crimsworth
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I held a brief debate with myself as to whether I should change my ordinary attire for something sma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Belgium! name unromantic and unpoetic, yet name that whenever uttered has in my ear a sound, in my h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I'm a universal patriot...my country is the world.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Pero cuando el dolor termina el recuerdo que queda a veces se transforma en placer
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I verily believe all that is desirable on earth--wealth, reputation, love--will for ever to you be t...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë No man likes to acknowledge that he has made a mistake in the choice of his profession, and every ma...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion coo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Human beings -- human children especially -- seldom deny themselves the pleasure of exercising a pow...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Tact, if it be genuine, never sleeps.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë That to begin with; let respect be the foundation, affection the first floor, love the superstructur...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë In sunshine, in prosperity, the flowers are very well; but how many wet days are there in life—Nov...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I sought her eye, desirous to read there the intelligence which I could not discern in her face or h...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitt...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless s...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë A strong, vague persuasion that it was better to go forward than backward, and that I could go forwa...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Worn out with this torture of thought, I rose to my knees. Night was come, and her planets were rise...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life. If they observed this du...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error....
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Sir,' I interrupted him, 'you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady; you speak of her with hate -...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Spring drew on...and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself,
than to commit a...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë All men must die.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë Signs may be but the sympathies of nature with man.
CHARLOTTE BRONTë You are human and fallible.
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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 catastrophe - marriage.

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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 catastrophe - marriage.

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