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"So far it has been very interesting. The first book I have read on the Confederacy that is focused almost exclusively on its political and social aspects. Today, the Confederacy is sometimes held up as a model of state's rights and less centralized government. However, the Confederate leadership was actually willing to trample on state's rights in order to protect slavery and poorer whites were just seen as pawns." — Mar 25, 2015 04:18PM
"So far it has been very interesting. The first book I have read on the Confederacy that is focused almost exclusively on its political and social aspects. Today, the Confederacy is sometimes held up as a model of state's rights and less centralized government. However, the Confederate leadership was actually willing to trample on state's rights in order to protect slavery and poorer whites were just seen as pawns." — Mar 25, 2015 04:18PM
“Jane, be still; don't struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation."
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Jane Eyre
"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”
― Jane Eyre
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me - for you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
“I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ. ”
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“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. Nobody knows how many rebellions besides political rebellions ferment in the masses of life which people earth. Women are supposed to be very calm generally: but women feel just as men feel; they need exercise for their faculties, and a field for their efforts, as much as their brothers do; they suffer from too rigid a restraint, to absolute a stagnation, precisely as men would suffer; and it is narrow-minded in their more privileged fellow-creatures to say that they ought to confine themselves to making puddings and knitting stockings, to playing on the piano and embroidering bags. It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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