People who read stories are said to have excitable brains.
Notes from Wikiquote
Also in Wilkie Collins: An Illustrated Guide by Andrew Collins & Catherine Peters [Oxford University Press, 1998] (p. 139)
Every human institution (Justice included) will stretch a little, if you only pull it the right way.
"Ask yourself if there is any explanation of the mystery of your own life and death."
I am not against hasty marriages, where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
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