• The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.''

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

1. dramatists
2. beholding
3. behold
4. things
5. employ
6. action

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The theatre is supremely fitted to say: ''Behold! These things are.'' Yet most dramatists employ it to say: ''This moral truth can be learned from beholding this action.'' by : Thornton Wilder

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