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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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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We neither know nor judge ourselves others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
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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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