Wilkie Collins Quotes

His Political And Social Speeches Were Cataracts Of Anecdotes And "loud Laughter"; His Bodily Health Was Of A Bursting Sort; His Ethics Were All Optimism; And He Dealt With The Drink Problem (his Favourite Topic) With That Immortal Or Even Monotonous Gaiety Which Is So Often A Mark Of The Prosperous Total Abstainer. The Established Story Of His Conversion Was Familiar On The More Puritanic Platforms And Pulpits, How He Had Been, When Only A Boy, Drawn Away From Scotch Theology To Scotch Whisky, And How He Had Risen Out Of Both And Become (as He Modestly Put It) What He Was. Yet His Wide White Beard, Cherubic Face, And Sparkling Spectacles, At The Numberless Dinners And Congresses Where They Appeared, Made It Hard To Believe, Somehow, That He Had Ever Been Anything So Morbid As Either A Dram-drinker Or A Calvinist. He Was, One Felt, The Most Seriously Merry Of All The Sons Of Men.

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