"The wisest man I have ever known once said to me: 'Nine out of every ten people improve on acquaintance,' and I have found his words true."

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I longed for a power of vision which might overpass that limit; which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen: that I desired more of practical experience than I possessed; more of intercourse with my kind, of acquaintance with variety of character, than was here within my reach.

— Charlotte Bronte