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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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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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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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I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!
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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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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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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
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The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
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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 have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.
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I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.
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Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.
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It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
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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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I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
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Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.
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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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