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The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.

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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
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Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
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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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Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
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Leadership is for those who love the public good and are endowed and trained to administer it.
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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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When you're at war, you think about a better life when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one.
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We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
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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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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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