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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
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William Wilkie Collins
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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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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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I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
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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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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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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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I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard and shows the bare bones beneath.
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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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This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
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Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.
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No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.
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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 mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.
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I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!
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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 sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.
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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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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.
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Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
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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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