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Them Quotes by Thornton Wilder
- Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
- Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners - your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards - who dishonor the vices…
- 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…
- I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you gave me a…
- [Dona Maria] saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of…
- All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization…
- Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
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- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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