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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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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
Nonsense
Acknowledge
Innumerable
Burden
Inherited
Bird
Superstition
Must
Governed
Men
Govern
Superstitions
Birds

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