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So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#behind #big #could #fence #go

They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#came #different #drove #had #laura

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. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#every #excellent #fought #good #i

There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#eavesdropping #head #inside #like #nothing

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. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#being #best #bring #creature #deepest

Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#certainly #checks #directors #like #many

However impenetrable it seems, if you don't try it, then you can never do it. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#impenetrable #never #seems #then #try

That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

#now #odyssey #over #particular #rest

The greatest problem for mathematicians now is probably the Riemann Hypothesis. ↗