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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
Wilkie Collins
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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
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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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I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.
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I used to attend scientific experiments when I was a girl at school. They invariably ended in an explosion. If Mr. Jennings will be so very kind, I should like to be warned of the explosion this time. With a view to getting it over, if possible, before I go to bed.
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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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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
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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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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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