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Wilkie Collins

“But compare the hardest day's work you ever did with the idleness that splits flowers and pokes its way into spiders' stomachs, and thank your stars that your head has got something it must think of, and your hands something that they must do.”

Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone
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The Moonstone The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
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