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William Wilkie Collins (8 January 1824 – 23 September 1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and short story writer. His best-known works are The Woman in White (1859), No Name (1862), Armadale (1866) and The Moonstone (1868). The last is considered the first modern English detective novel.

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Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

Match, Men, Self Control, Temper, Wit, Wits

Husbands and wives talk of the cares of matrimony, and bachelors and spinsters bear them.

Bachelors, Care, Husband, Matrimony, Wife, Wives

Except in this ignorant and material century, men have always worn precious stuffs and beautiful colours as well as women.

Beautiful, Colours, Ignorant, Material, Men, Women

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

Know, Littles, Men, Remember, Things

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

Happier, Language, Music, Speak, Tonight

I am a citizen of the world, and I have met, in my time, with so many different sorts of virtue, that I am puzzled, in my old age, to say which is the right sort and which is the wrong.

Age, Citizens, Different, Met, Sort

I am an average good Christian, when you don't push my Christianity too far. And all the rest of you—which is a great comfort—are, in this respect, much the same as I am.

Average, Christian, Christianity, Comfort, Good

Tears are scientifically described as a Secretion. I can understand that a secretion may be healthy or unhealthy, but I cannot see the interest of a secretion from a sentimental point of view.

Healthy, Interest, Point, Tears, Views

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

Leaving, Life, Old, Tears, World

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

Gives, Giving, Light, Shadowy, Spiritual, Woman

Some of us rush through life, and some of us saunter through life. Mrs Vesey sat through life.

Mrs, Rush, Sat, Saunter, Vesey

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 grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

Grand, Ideas, Immense, Intellectual, Literary, Men

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Done, Earth, Heaven, Like, Look, Looks

I am a bundle of nerves dressed up to look like a man!

Like, Look, Looks, Men, Nerves

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

Headlong, Men, Ruin, Ruins, Unworthy

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

Book, Masters, Merciful, Used

I never paid you a compliment, Rachel, in my life. Successful love may sometimes use the language of flattery, I admit. But hopeless love, dearest, always speaks the truth.

Admit, Hopeless, May, Successful, Truth, Use

Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride. . . Early and late, through the long winter nights and the quiet summer days, I drank at the fountain of knowledge, and never wearied of the draught.

Book, Generous, Knowledge, Long, Summer, Winter

It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.

Struggle, Light, Nature, Truth

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 noise.

Children, Idea, Ideas, Machines, Make, Reform

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