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-“Because I have been wrongly accused; and you, ma'am, and everybody else, will now think me wicked”
-“We shall think you what you prove yourself to be, my child.”

“it is not violence that best overcomes hate —nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.
Love your enemies; bless them that curse you; do good to them that hate you and despitefully use you?”

'you are good to those who are good to you. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.'

“Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine.”

“'Come, Miss Jane, don't cry', said Bessie. She might as well have said to the fire 'don't burn!' but how could she divine the morbid suffering to which I was a prey?