The more decisions that you ...

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.
 Thornton Wilder

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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

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We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
 Thornton Wilder
If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.
 Thornton Wilder
People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.
 Thornton Wilder
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
 Thornton Wilder
I rose by sheer military ability to the rank of corporal.
 Thornton Wilder