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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 Because, when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded.
2 Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails.
3 Miss Ingram, I am sure you will not fail in evincing superiority to idle terrors.
4 When I heard this, I was beginning to feel a strange chill and failing at the heart.
5 On closer examination, you detected something in his face that displeased, or rather that failed to please.
6 St. John called me to his side to read; in attempting to do this my voice failed me: words were lost in sobs.
7 It did not seem as if a prop were withdrawn, but rather as if a motive were gone: it was not the power to be tranquil which had failed me, but the reason for tranquillity was no more.
8 It was a wailing child this night, and a laughing one the next: now it nestled close to me, and now it ran from me; but whatever mood the apparition evinced, whatever aspect it wore, it failed not for seven successive nights to meet me the moment I entered the land of slumber.
9 It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially wanted to get me out of painful embarrassment.