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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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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 books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
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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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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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Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
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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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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 best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything. But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times the roses get it.
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...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all.
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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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I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
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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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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them
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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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Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
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I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
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