Wilkie Collins - Man Quotes

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

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If I ever meet with the man who fulfills my ideal, I shall make it a condition of the marriage settlement, that I am to have chocolate under the pillow.

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But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them

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Habits of literary composition are perfectly familiar to me. One of the rarest of all the intellectual accomplishments that a man can possess is the grand faculty of arranging his ideas. Immense privilege! I possess it. Do you?

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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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No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

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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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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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She looked so irresistibly beautiful as she said those brave words that no man alive could have steel his heart against her.

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