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.

—Charlotte Bronte

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Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavor, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.

—Charlotte Bronte

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

—Charlotte Bronte

Look twice before you leap.

—Charlotte Bronte

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Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.

—Charlotte Bronte

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As she lay dying, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour—the official chief mistress of Louis XV, King of France—summoned her last strength and called to God, "Wait a second," as she dabbed her cheeks with rouge.

—Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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The truest characters of ignorance are vanity and pride and arrogance.

—Samuel Butler

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