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Wilkie Collins Quotes: I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
         

I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.


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I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.
         



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We had our breakfasts--whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.



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.

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I have always held the old-fashioned opinion that the primary object of work of fiction should be to tell a story.



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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.



Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.

Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.





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