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

— Wilkie Collins The Law and the Lady (1875)

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Also in Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock by Eleanor Salotto [Springer, 2016, ISBN 1-137-11770-2] (p. 32)

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