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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.
Wilkie Collins
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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
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William Collins
William Wilkie Collins
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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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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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Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.
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My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
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I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.
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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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Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?
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There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their winethey can't play at wistand they can't pay a lady a compliment.
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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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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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This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
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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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No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
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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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It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
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The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.
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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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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
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