Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

"Take them away, M. Paul," I said, "and teach me no more. I never
asked to be made learned, and you compel me to feel very profoundly
that learning is not happiness."

And returning to my desk, I laid my head on my arms, nor would I speak
to him for two days afterwards. He pained and chagrined me. His
affection had been very sweet and dear--a pleasure new and
incomparable: now that this seemed withdrawn, I cared not for his
lessons.