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Quote by Charlotte Bronte
One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one ha

One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow. – Charlotte Bronte

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

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If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own. – Charlotte Bronte

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Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. – Charlotte Bronte

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Nothing succeeds like ones own successor. – Clarence H. Hincks

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Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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