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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.

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 law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.
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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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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
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I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath.
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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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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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The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.
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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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The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.
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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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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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She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.
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I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.
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