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Rather Quotes by Charlotte Bronte
- If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.
- The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when…
- I would always rather be happy than dignified.
- You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.
- There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly…
- It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be…
- So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided me with vehemence. You are…
- And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
- You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.
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