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Literary Quotes by Wilkie Collins
- The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies right out of the pale…
- Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the…
- 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…
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