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Money is like manure it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
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Madison
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Thornton Niven Wilder
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I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
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I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
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All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.
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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
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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.
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A play visibly represents pure existing.
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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
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