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Men 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.
- Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day
- A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a…
- I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps
- There's nothing like mixing with woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense.
- Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and women.…
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