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I would always rather be happy than dignified. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Reader, I married him. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847It 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. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol. — Charlotte Bronte · 1847All 12 quotes →