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Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?
Wilkie Collins
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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
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We neither know nor judge ourselves others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
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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.
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