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My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
The theatre is supremely fitted to say: 'Behold! These things are.' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: 'This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
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Thornton Wilder
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17 April, 1897
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07 December, 1975
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