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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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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.
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And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.
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