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There's nothing like mixing with women to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.

Thornton Wilder

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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
Bring
Sense
Women
Nothing
Men
Like
Mixing
Foolishness

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