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The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
Wilkie Collins
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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
Journalist
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Poet Lawyer
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London
England
William Collins
William Wilkie Collins
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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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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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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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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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Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
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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 a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!
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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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The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale of true literary civilization - which is now waiting to be taught the difference between a good book and a bad.
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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 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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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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I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.
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Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.
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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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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
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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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Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.
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But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?
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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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