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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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How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?
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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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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.
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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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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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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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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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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.
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If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
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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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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
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I was an old man when I was 12 and now I am an old man, AND IT'S SPLENDID!
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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.
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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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Imprisonment of the body is bitter imprisonment of the mind is worse
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