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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
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Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but theremay never be two that love one another equally well.
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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.
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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.
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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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