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Great Quotes by Thornton Wilder
- If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
- We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face it.
- Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention…
- Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
- Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
- She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to…
- Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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