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It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

Wilkie Collins

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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
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London
England
William Collins
William Wilkie Collins
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