"Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs."
"I would not be you for a kingdom.' The remark was too naïve to rouse anger; I merely said - 'Very good.' 'And what would you give to be ME?' she inquired. 'Not a bad sixpence - strange as it may sound', I replied. 'You are but a poor creature.' 'You don't think so in your heart.' 'No; for in my heart you have not the outline of a place: I only occasionally turn you over in my brain."
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Source: Jane Eyre. Ch. 6. Book by Charlotte Bronte, 1847.
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