"...it will always remain my private persuasion that……" — Wilkie Collins
"...it will always remain my private persuasion that Nature was absorbed in making cabbages when Mrs. Vesey was born, and that the good lady suffered the consequences of a vegetable preoccupation in the mind of the Mother of us all."
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55 Quotes by Wilkie Collins
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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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I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
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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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