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Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences.
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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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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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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Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.
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Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.
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People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
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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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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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Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
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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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