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Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.
Thornton Wilder
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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
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Thornton Niven Wilder
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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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There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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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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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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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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The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
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Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.
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It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps
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