It does good to no woman to be flattered {by a man} who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication.
( Charlotte Brontë )
[ Jane Eyre ]
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