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Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth?

Source:Chapter XXVII
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  • Book: Jane Eyre
  • Writer: Charlotte Brontë
  • Genre: Classics, Fiction, Romance
  • Published: 1847
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