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Thornton Wilder, fully Thornton Niven Wilder
We all have time to expend on what is essential to our nature.
As by your high imperial majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, as procurator to your excellence, to marry Princess Margaret for your grace, so, in the famous ancient city Tours, in presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, the Dukes of Orleans, Calabar, Bretagne, and Alencon, seven earls, twelve barons, and twenty reverend bishops, I have performed my mask and was espoused. Henry VI, Act I, Scene 1
Abundance | Books | Ceremony | Fear | Heart | Love | Rage | Recompense | Strength | Learn |
There is great skill in knowing how to conceal one's skill.
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True eloquence consists in saying all that is proper, and nothing more.
Nothing |
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.
Nothing |
True love is like the appearance of ghosts; everyone talks about it but few have seen it.
O, let us have him, for his silver hairs will purchase us a good opinion, and buy men's voices to commend our deeds.
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The expression of the sounds in their tuneful prosody, and that which they had also in their musical recitation, must have been introductory to the impression they were to make, when separate from the human voice.
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