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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

Thornton Wilder

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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
Atheism
Faith
Hope
Fear
Nothing
Like
Courageous
Rage
Ridiculous

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