"Who in the world cares for you, or who will be injured by what you do?
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God . . . Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this . . . If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have a worth--so I have always believed. Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have at this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot."
- Charlotte Bronte in Jane Eyre -
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