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 to colloquial speech.
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I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.Thornton Wilder
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
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When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
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Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home.
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The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself, Oh, now I've got myself into an awful mess I wish I were sitting quietly at home.
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