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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.
Wilkie Collins
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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
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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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We neither know nor judge ourselves others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
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I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!
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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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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?
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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.
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Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
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