He fumed like a bottled storm.
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Villette by Charlotte Bronte
I believe that creature is a changeling: she is a perfect cabinet of oddities.
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Villette by Charlotte Bronte
I seemed to hold two lives—the life of thought, and that of reality; and, provided the former was nourished with a sufficiency of the strange necromantic joys of fancy, the privileges of the latter might remain limited to daily bread, hourly work, and a roof of shelter.
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Villette by Charlotte Bronte
To see and know the worst is to take from Fear her main advantage.
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Villette by Charlotte Bronte
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
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Villette by Charlotte Bronte
"It is always the way of events in this life," he continued presently: "no sooner have you got settled in a pleasant resting-place, than a voice calls out to you to rise and move on, for the hour of repose is expired."
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
I ask you to pass through life at my side—to be my second self, and best earthly companion.
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Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte