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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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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. – Charlotte Bronte

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The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. – Charlotte Bronte

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He who comes for the inheritance is often made to pay for the funeral. – Yiddish Proverb

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Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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