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Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
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London
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William Collins
William Wilkie Collins
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Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
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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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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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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 noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.
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I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
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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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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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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.
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I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!
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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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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 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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