"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."
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The Woman in White by
Wilkie Collins
"Let the music speak to us of to-night, in a happier language than ours."
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The Woman in White by
Wilkie Collins
Silence is safe.
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The Woman in White by
Wilkie Collins
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
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The Woman in White by
Wilkie Collins
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 Woman in White by
Wilkie Collins
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
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The Woman in White by
Wilkie Collins
The best men are not consistent in good--why should the worst men be consistent in evil?
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The Woman in White by
Wilkie Collins
Women can resist a man's love, a man's fame, a man's personal appearance, and a man's money, but they cannot resist a man's tongue when he knows how to talk to them.
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The Woman in White by
Wilkie Collins
"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."
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The Woman in White by
Wilkie Collins
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.
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The Woman in White by
Wilkie Collins
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