I would always rather be happy than dignified.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
Image: Dignity and Impudence by Sir Edwin Landseer (1839), via Wikimedia Commons, Edwin Henry Landseer / Public domain
I would always rather be happy than dignified.
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847)
Image: Dignity and Impudence by Sir Edwin Landseer (1839), via Wikimedia Commons, Edwin Henry Landseer / Public domain
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Excellent quote, one of several bons mots in this novel. (And my mother had a tin with this Landseer image on it where she kept photos, or)letters or buttons, can’t remember what but the image has stayed with me for six decades!)
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I’ve loved this image from forever (whenever I first saw it, that is, when exactly, I can’t remember).
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