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Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White Quotes: I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.
         

I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.


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I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.
         



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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.



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The mystery which underlies the beauty of women is never raised above the reach of all expression until it has claimed kindred with the deeper mystery in our own souls.



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The fool's crime is the crime that is found out and the wise man's crime is the crime that is not found out.



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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.



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.

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.



But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?



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Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…





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