It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

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Topic

Human nature

Author

Charlotte Brontë

Source

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

English

Time

1847 1840s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

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United Kingdom Europe

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Original Citation

Brontë, Charlotte, [published as Currer Bell]. Jane Eyre: An Autobiography. Vol. 1, London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1847, ch. 12.

Current Citation

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Penguin Classics, 2006, ch. 12.

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The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths.

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Ada Lovelace
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Time
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The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them.

Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

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Emily Brontë
Source
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Medium
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Statement Type
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Language
English
Time
1847 1840s 19th century
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Original Citation

Brontë, Emily, [published as Ellis Bell]. Wuthering Heights. Vol. 1, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, 1847, ch. 11.

Current Citation

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights, edited by Alexandra Lewis. W. W. Norton & Company, 2019, ch. 11.