Charlotte Brontë quote: Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time as aromatic wine it seemed on swallowing ...

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 Brontë ~

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

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Love me, then, or hate me, as you will," I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.

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Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?"Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.

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It is a happy thing that time quells the longings of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had left this woman in bitterness and...