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...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.
Wilkie Collins
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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
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Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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.
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My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
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No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
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Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?
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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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The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.
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Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
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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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If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.
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This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
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Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
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What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!
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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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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.
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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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I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
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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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