"Pride, avarice, and envy are in every home."
-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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"Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value."
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"Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous it is nothing if it is not ridiculous."
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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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"The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much."
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"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday."
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"Death ends a life, not a relationship."
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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
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"It is love, not reason, that is stronger than death."
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