| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8381 |
| QUOTATION: | One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Charlotte Brontė (1816–1855), British novelist. Jane Eyre, ch. 33 (1847). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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