"Prodigious was the amount of life I lived that morning."
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"For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity."
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"He is not to them what he is to me."
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"Of late years an abundant shower of curates has fallen upon the North of England."
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"as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many."
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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 times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated."
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"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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"Reader, I literally married him."
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"As to the thoughts, they are elfish. Those eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream."
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"After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you."
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"I mean that I value vision, and dread being struck stone blind."
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"Do you like him much?' I told you I liked him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much: he is full of faults.' Is he?' All boys are."
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"I grant an ugly woman is a blot on the fair face of creation; but as to the gentleman, let them be solicitous to possess only strength and valour: let their motto be:Hunt, shoot, and fight: the rest is not worth a flip."
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"Que me voulez-vous?' said he in a growl of which the music was wholly confined to his chest and throat, for he kept his teeth clenched, and seemed registering to himself an inward vow that nothing earthly should wring from him a smile. My answer commenced uncompromisingly: - 'Monsieur,' I said, je veux l'impossible, des choses inouïes."
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"Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know."
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"Wise people say it is folly to think anybody perfect; and as to likes and dislikes, we should be friendly to all, and worship none"
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"Jane Eyre "I desired more...than was within my reach. Who blames me? Many call me discontented. I couldn't help it: the restlessness is in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes."
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"When his first-born was put into his arms, he could see that the boy had inherited his own eyes, as they once were - large, brilliant, and black."
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"I could not answer the ceaseless inward question-why I thus suffered; now, at the distance of-I will not say how many years, I see it clearly."
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"Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life."
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