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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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We neither know nor judge ourselves others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
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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 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. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.
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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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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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It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
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My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
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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.
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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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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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The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.
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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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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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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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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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