Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. T…

Charlotte Bronte
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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. ✨ 'Jane Eyre' (2nd ed., 1848) preface
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