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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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2 She seemed to want no company; no conversation.
3 I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.
4 I, too, do not want a sister: a sister might any day be taken from me.
5 Any one may serve: I have served here eight years; now all I want is to serve elsewhere.
6 I trust, Jane, you are in earnest when you say you will serve your heart to God: it is all I want.
7 The burden must be carried; the want provided for; the suffering endured; the responsibility fulfilled.
8 Diana and Mary will be at home in a week, and I want to have everything in order against their arrival.
9 I want a wife: the sole helpmeet I can influence efficiently in life, and retain absolutely till death.
10 Take this advice: the first and last I shall offer you; then you will not want me or any one else, happen what may.
11 Much exhausted, and suffering greatly now for want of food, I turned aside into a lane and sat down under the hedge.
12 Real affection, it seemed, he could not have for me; it had been only fitful passion: that was balked; he would want me no more.
13 I remembered that strangers who arrive at a place where they have no friends, and who want employment, sometimes apply to the clergyman for introduction and aid.
14 The want of his animating influence appeared to be peculiarly felt one day that he had been summoned to Millcote on business, and was not likely to return till late.
15 True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it.
16 It was not my habit to be disregardful of appearance or careless of the impression I made: on the contrary, I ever wished to look as well as I could, and to please as much as my want of beauty would permit.
17 I slept two nights in the open air, and wandered about two days without crossing a threshold: but twice in that space of time did I taste food; and it was when brought by hunger, exhaustion, and despair almost to the last gasp, that you, Mr. Rivers, forbade me to perish of want at your door, and took me under the shelter of your roof.
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