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Quote by Thornton Wilder
Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think shes a household

Marriage is a bribe to make the housekeeper think shes a householder. – Thornton Wilder

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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. – Thornton Wilder

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We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. – Thornton Wilder

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