Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?
("The 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
Tell him next, that crimes cause their own detection. There's another bit of copy-book morality for you, Fosco. Crimes cause their own detection. What infernal humbug!
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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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The small pulse of the life within me and the great heart of th city around me seemed to be sinking in unison.
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Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
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It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.
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