[etni] May we never have such thoughts...

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Charlotte continued in her position as a schoolteacher, which she had
already held for a year. But she hated her profession and heartily despised
the aggravating brats she was forced to teach. As the children at Roe Head
School did their lessons, she wrote in her journal: "I had been toiling for
nearly an hour. I sat sinking from irritation and weariness into a kind of
lethargy. The thought came over me: am I to spend all the best part of my
life in this wretched bondage, forcibly suppressing my rage at the idleness,
the apathy and the hyperbolic and most asinine stupidity of these fat headed
oafs and on compulsion assuming an air of kindness, patience and assiduity?
Must I from day to day sit chained to this chair prisoned within these four
bare walls, while the glorious summer suns are burning in heaven and the
year is revolving in its richest glow and declaring at the close of every
summer day the time I am losing will never come again?" 

From a review of a new book about Charlotte Bronte 

http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/classics/story/0,6000,1445404,00.htm
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