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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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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves. – Charlotte Bronte

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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. – Charlotte Bronte

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