Yes, I have been reading Jane Eyre for several months now (I think I have read three other books in the meantime) and have really enjoyed it. I wanted to share another quote. The background behind this quote - Jane who has never had family or fortune has just acquired both and is talking about her future with her cousin, St. John, who is a ambitious missionary. She has resigned from her teaching school in a poor, farming community. Here is the quote -
"Jane... (I) hope you will begin to look beyond Moor house and Morton, and sisterly society and the selfish calm and sensual comfort of civilized affluence. I hope your energies will then once more trouble you with their strength."
I looked at him with surprise. "St. John," I said, "I think you are almost as wicked to talk so. I am disposed to be as content as a queen, and you try to stir me up to restlessness! To what end?"
"To the end of turning to profit the talents which God has committed to your keeping; and of which he will surely one day demand a strict account."
Jane Eyre, pg. 373
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