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Wilkie Collins Quotes

«It is the nature of truth to struggle to the light.»
«We had our breakfasts-whatever happens in a house, robbery or murder, it doesn't matter, you must have your breakfast.»
«The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.»
«It may not be amiss to add, for the benefit of incredulous readers, that all the 'improbable events' in the story are matters of fact, taken from the printed narrative.»
«I have always maintained that the one important phenomenon presented by modern society is - the enormous prosperity of Fools.»
«The law will argue any thing, with any body who will pay the law for the use of its brains and its time.»
«Peace rules the day, where reason rules the mind.»
«The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.»
«I am (thank God) constitutionally superior to reason.»
«Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.»