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Horace Vandergelder, a wealthy merchant in nineteenth-century
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Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. But I wasn’t always free of foolishness as I am now. I was once young, which was foolish; I fell in love, which was foolish; and I got married, which was foolish; and for a while I was poor, which was more foolish than all the other things put together.
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So if I should lose my head a little, I still have enough money to buy it back. After many years’ caution and hard work, I have a right to a little risk and adventure, and I’m thinking of getting married. Yes, like all you other fools, I’m willing to risk a little security for a certain amount of adventure. Think it over.
Thornton Wilder. The Matchmaker. Harper Perennial (electronic edition) p.33
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