Lo que no está en mi corazón, no lo escribirá mi pluma.

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If you will look about you (which most people won't do)," says Sergeant Cuff, "you will see that the nature of a man's tastes is, most times, as opposite as possible to the nature of a man's business.

Wilkie Collins

Mots clés taste business occupation opposites

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Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?

Wilkie Collins

Mots clés honesty prison scoundrel count-fosco

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Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?

Wilkie Collins

Mots clés desert england palestine arabia collins country-town woman-in-white

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This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.

Wilkie Collins

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What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our moserable little stage!

Wilkie Collins

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In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.

Wilkie Collins

Mots clés trifles importance details

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I haven't much time to be fond of anything ... but when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times ... the roses get it. I began my life among them in my father's nursery garden, and I shall end my life among them, if I can. Yes. One of these days (please God) I shall retire from catching thieves, and try my hand at growing roses.

Wilkie Collins

Mots clés roses gardens

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I found out after reading quite a lot of it that it is not rated very high. He has a very descriptive way of writing but also lengthy. May not want to finish!!!!! This was his 1sr and only try ast Historical Fiction!

Wilkie Collins

Mots clés historical-fiction-mystery

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When a sensible woman has a reasonable question put to her, and evades it by a flippant answer, it is a sure sign, in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, that she has something to conceal.

Wilkie Collins

Mots clés evasion

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