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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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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
Virtues
Vices
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Making
Great
Men
Spectacle

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Imprisonment of the body is bitter imprisonment of the mind is worse
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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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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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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
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Money is like manure it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.
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There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
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Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.
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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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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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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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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 condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.
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I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.
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I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms.
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