“I like Revelations, and the book of Daniel, and Genesis and Samuel, and a little bit of Exodus, and some parts of Kings and Chronicles, and Job and Jonah.” “And the Psalms? I hope you like them?” “No, sir.” “No? Oh, shocking! I have a little boy, younger than you, who knows six Psalms by heart: and when you ask him which he would rather have, a gingerbread-nut to eat, or a verse of a Psalm to learn he says: ‘Oh! The verse of a Psalm! angels sing Psalms,’ says he; ‘I wish to be an angel here below;’ he then gets two nuts in recompense for his infant piety.” “Psalms are not interesting I remarked.
taken from: Jane Eyre by: Charlotte Bronte, chapter IV
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