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. (Thornton Wilder)

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.

Thornton Wilder

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