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William Collins

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Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.


— William Collins


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Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead.


— William Collins


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By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.


— William Collins


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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!


— William Collins


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I think humor is a very serious thing. I use it as a way of weakening the reader's defenses so that I can more easily take him to something more.


— William Collins


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In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.


— William Collins


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Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.


— William Collins


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When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.


— William Collins


#dentistry #do-it-yourself #go #her #his

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.


— William Collins


#democracy #feminism #like #me #scare






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William Collins (Warwick MP) Member of Parliament (MP) for Warwick 1837–52
William Collins (Worcester MP) English politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1654 to 1659
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William Whitehouse Collins (1853–1923) New Zealand Member of Parliament for Christchurch in the South Island
William Wiehe Collins (painter) (1862–1951) English architectural and landscape genre painter
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