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“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control. ”
― Emma
― Emma
“Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.”
― Mansfield Park
― Mansfield Park
“He never could have loved me, or he would not have resigned me so willingly”
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
― The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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