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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.
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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How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?
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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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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.
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On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
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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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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
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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 best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
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Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
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Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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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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Heaven's my destination.
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[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
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Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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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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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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