• The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

  Thornton Wilder
  American writer and playwright 1897-1975
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. outgrowing
2. clarify
3. reshape
4. nettle
5. trying

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The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape. by : Thornton Wilder

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