“A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
― Clockwork Angel
― Clockwork Angel
“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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