Poverty, for me, is synonymous with degradation.
– Charlotte Bront
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- I had wanted to compromise with Fate: to escape occasional great agonies by submitting to a whole life of privation and small pains. – Charlotte Bront
- My feelings towards it can only be paralleled by that of a doting parent towards an idiot child. – Charlotte Bront
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- He did not yet known how many commenced lefe-romances are doomed never to get beyond the first, or at most the second chapter. – Charlotte Bront
- Jane! will you hear reason?’ (he stooped and approached his lips to my ear) ‘because, if you won’t, I’ll try violence. – Charlotte Bront
- Night was come, and her planets were risen: a safe, still night: too serene for the companionship of fear. – Charlotte Bront
- Your mind is my treasure, and if it were broken, it would be my treasure still – Charlotte Bront
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- … your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me… – Charlotte Bront