
![I began the process of ruining myself in the received style, like any other [fool]. I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trod the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten center.
- Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgmm7ozrxn1qfgrmpo1_500.jpg)
I began the process of ruining myself in the received style, like any other [fool]. I had not, it seems, the originality to chalk out a new road to shame and destruction, but trod the old track with stupid exactness not to deviate an inch from the beaten center.
- Jane Eyre, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte