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Mr. Rochester is so rude..

‘The subjects had, indeed, risen vividly on my mind. As I saw them with the spiritual eye, before I attempted to embody them, they were striking; but my hand would not second my fancy, and in each case it had wrought out but a pale portrait of the thing I had conceived.’

Every artist can relate

‘It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.’

‘Then slept Eriol, and through his dreams there came a music thinner and more pure than any he heard before, and it was full of longing.’

‘The mind of the multitude is left at random, and seeing no fixed object before them, they pursue such as fancy or opinion starts. Nothing is criminal; there is no such thing as treason; wherefore, every one thinks himself at liberty to act as he pleases.’

‘The present state of America is truly alarming to every man who is capable of reflexion.’ 👀

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‘We are not the little people now, which we were sixty years ago; at that time we might have trusted our property in the streets, or fields rather; and slept securely without locks or bolts to our doors or windows. The case now is altered, and our methods of defence ought to improve with our increase of property.’

‘left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards.’

Picking this back up today—happy birthday Thomas Paine!🫡

Way more commentary than I was expecting 😅

“There’s more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”