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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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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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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
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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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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 a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!
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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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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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Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.
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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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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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...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.
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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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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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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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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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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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The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
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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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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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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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