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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

— Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre (1847)

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If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

Jane Eyre (1847)

Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.

The Professor (1857)

There is, in lovers, a certain infatuation of egotism; they will have a witness of their happiness, cost that witness what it may.

Villette (1853)

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

The Professor (1857)

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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