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The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.
Wilkie Collins
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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
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Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.
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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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