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Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
Wilkie Collins
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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
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London
England
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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 evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.
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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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The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
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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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This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.
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The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.
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I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.
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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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The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
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It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
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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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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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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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The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.
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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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I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.
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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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