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I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
Wilkie Collins
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Wilkie Collins
Age: 65 †
Born: 1824
Born: January 8
Died: 1889
Died: September 23
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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 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. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.
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Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
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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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I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.
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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
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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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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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The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.
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Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
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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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I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.
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My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
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Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?
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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.
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