My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a v… - Charlotte Brontë

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My world had for some years been Lowood: my experience had been of its rules and systems; now I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse, to seek real knowledge of life amidst its perils.