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Quotes from The Law and the Lady — Wilkie Collins

1824–1889 England

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The actions of human beings are not invariably governed by the laws of pure reason

The Law and the Lady (1875)

No man under Heaven deserves these sacrifices from us women. Men! They are the enemies of our innocence and our peace — they drag us away from our parents' love and our sisters' friendship — they take us body and soul to themselves, and fasten our helpless lives to theirs as they chain up a dog to his kennel.

The Law and the Lady (1875)

I confess I have often fancied myself transformed into some other person, and have felt a certian pleasure in seeing myself in my new chracter. One of our first amusements as children (if we have any imagination at all) is to get out of our own characters, and to try the characters of other personages as a change—to be fairies, to be queens, to be anything, in short, but what we really are.

The Law and the Lady (1875)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Wilkie Collins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.