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Them Quotes by Wilkie Collins
- But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them
- 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…
- Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.
- 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…
- 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,…
- Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when…
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
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- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
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- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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