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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
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William Collins
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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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We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.
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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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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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I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.
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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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My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
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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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Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.
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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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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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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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There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their winethey can't play at wistand they can't pay a lady a compliment.
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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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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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I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!
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