“I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.”
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Eyre
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“I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind, and then to learn to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor women [...]: no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.”
Charlotte Brontë
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