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Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

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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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Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

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A play visibly represents pure existing.

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Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.

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But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone.

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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.

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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.

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A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

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Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: April 17th, 1897

Died: December 7th, 1975

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