“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
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“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I have good reason to be content,
for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.”
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for thank God I can read and
perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.”
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“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.”
― Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
― Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne
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