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This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
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Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.
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The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.
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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
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And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.
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She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.
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I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.
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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
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But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?
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I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.
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