Quote #2
Novelists should never allow themselves to weary of the study of real life.
More from Charlotte Bronte
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- There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.
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- It seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no con…
- I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt as long as I live. I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and i…
- If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust; the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would ne…
- It is not violence that best overcomes hate - nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.