"If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should— so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again."
—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 1847

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"If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should— so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again."
—Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre 1847

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Oh, this is easy: ROCHESTER! (Heathcliff is just misunderstood.) On the Austen side, Wickham is a walking red flag.

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