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Inspirational Quotes by Wilkie Collins
- It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
- Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
- We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
- The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.
- It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.
- I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.
- My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.
- Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
- Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.
- Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.
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