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I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.

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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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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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I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!
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