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I not only bow to the inevitable I am fortified by it.
Thornton Wilder
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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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