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The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

Wilkie Collins

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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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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
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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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If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.
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