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My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.

Wilkie Collins

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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
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London
England
William Collins
William Wilkie Collins
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