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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.
Wilkie Collins
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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
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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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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 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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Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
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It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
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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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I used to attend scientific experiments when I was a girl at school. They invariably ended in an explosion. If Mr. Jennings will be so very kind, I should like to be warned of the explosion this time. With a view to getting it over, if possible, before I go to bed.
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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
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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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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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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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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. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.
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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
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What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!
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I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
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We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
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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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