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Join the roomPortrait of Wilkie Collins is an 1850 portrait painting by the British artist John Everett Millais depicting the writer Wilkie Collins. Collins later became a popular novelist producing works such as The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone but was at the beginning of his career when he posed for this portrait. he two men were friends and the sitter's brother Charles Allston Collins was a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood along with Millais.
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“I have noticed that the Christianity of a certain class of respectable people begins when they open their prayer-books at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, and ends when they shut them up again at one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. Nothing so astonishes and insults Christians of this sort as reminding them of their Christianity on a week-day.”
“"A very remarkable work... in the present state of light literature in England, a novel that actually tells a story. It 's quite incredible, I know. Try the book. It has another extraordinary merit, it isn't written by a woman."”
“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.”
“Your tears come easy , when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it.”
“Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.”
“My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.”
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