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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
Enough
Important
Life
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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.
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A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.
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Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
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I am my own judge of what truths I shall tell. The truth can do just as much harm as a lie.
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I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.
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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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Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.
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The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
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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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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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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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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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The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
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A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
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For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
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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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