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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.
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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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