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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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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
Journalist
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London
England
William Collins
William Wilkie Collins
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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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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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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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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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I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
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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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This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
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Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
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I am thinking,’ he remarked quietly, ’whether I shall add to the disorder in this room, by scattering your brains about the fireplace.
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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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Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
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I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.
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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 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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The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.
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Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
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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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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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The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.
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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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