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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.

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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
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for - whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
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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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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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Literature is the orchestration of platitudes.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.
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Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
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What is essential does not die but clarifies.
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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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A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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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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The difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.
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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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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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