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Five Quotes by Thornton Wilder
- On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.
- We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars…
- But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while…
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