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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
England
William Collins
William Wilkie Collins
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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 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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Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
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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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Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
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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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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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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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Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
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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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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
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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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I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!
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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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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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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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Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.
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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
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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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