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“Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion.”

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Jane says this while refusing to pretend to a regularity of feeling she does not have, in the presence of a clergyman. Brontë puts it into a conversation where the pressure to perform conventional virtue is constant and specific.

Source: Jane Eyre, Chapter 25

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