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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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Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
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Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
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I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.
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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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The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.
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I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.
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I used to attend scientific experiments when I was a girl at school. They invariably ended in an explosion. If Mr. Jennings will be so very kind, I should like to be warned of the explosion this time. With a view to getting it over, if possible, before I go to bed.
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