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Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

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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
Choose
Least
Enough
Important
Life

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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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The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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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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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 public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.
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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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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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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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Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
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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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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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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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Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
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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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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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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.
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Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
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Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
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