"I am not against hasty marriages where a……" — Wilkie Collins
"I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income."
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55 Quotes by Wilkie Collins
Wilkie Collins has 55 quotes on this site.
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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer…
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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre.…
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I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of…
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Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
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The future of English fiction may rest with this Unknown Public - a reading public of three millions which lies…
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We neither know nor judge ourselves; others may judge, but cannot know us. God alone judges and knows us.
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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 haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most…
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I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own…
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I haven't much time to be fond of anything . . . But when I have a moment's fondness to…
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The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has…
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
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This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed…
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There are blessings in being close to the soil, in raising your own food even if it is only a…
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Civilization as it is known today could not have evolved, nor can it survive, without an adequate food supply.
— Norman Borlaug
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Almost certainly, however, the first essential component of social justice is adequate food for all mankind.
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Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them…
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A safe and nutritionally adequate diet is a basic individual right and an essential condition for sustainable development, especially in…
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I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so…
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War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
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A health system that lacks commodities for managing high-mortality infectious diseases and the main killers of mothers and young children…
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I found that the recipes in most - in all - the books I had were really not adequate. They…
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The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate…
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