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William Dean Howells quotes: People are born and married, and live and die, in the midst of an uproar so frantic that you would think they would go mad of it. People are born and married, and live and die, in the midst of an uproar so frantic that you would think they would go mad of it.
William Dean Howells quotes: You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up. You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
William Dean Howells quotes: The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested. The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
William Dean Howells quotes: The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection. The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
William Dean Howells quotes: It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better. It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better.
William Dean Howells quotes: There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things. There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.
William Dean Howells quotes: The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
William Dean Howells quotes: Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week. Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
William Dean Howells quotes: A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it. A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.
William Dean Howells quotes: I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost. I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.
William Dean Howells quotes: Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step. Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.
William Dean Howells quotes: Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
William Dean Howells quotes: If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours. If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.
William Dean Howells quotes: It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
William Dean Howells quotes: Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns. Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.
William Dean Howells quotes: Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself. Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
William Dean Howells quotes: I haven't done anything--yet. I haven't done anything--yet.
William Dean Howells quotes: Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them are ruinous! Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them
are ruinous!
William Dean Howells quotes: Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice? Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
William Dean Howells quotes: The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you. The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
William Dean Howells quotes: In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere. In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
William Dean Howells quotes: She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases. She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.
William Dean Howells quotes: The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment. The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
William Dean Howells quotes: Primitive societies without religion have never been found. Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
William Dean Howells quotes: The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest. The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.
William Dean Howells quotes: Forest to their fields of corn and tobacco on the fertile slopes and rich bottom-lands. The Forest to their fields of corn and tobacco on the fertile slopes and rich bottom-lands. The
William Dean Howells quotes: How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us? How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
William Dean Howells quotes: A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality. A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.
William Dean Howells quotes: See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious. See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
William Dean Howells quotes: The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all. The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
William Dean Howells quotes: An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise. An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
William Dean Howells quotes: People naturally despise a dependant. People naturally despise a dependant.
William Dean Howells quotes: It seems to me a proof of the small advance our race has made in true wisdom, that we find it so hard to give up doing anything we have It seems to me a proof of the small advance our race has made in true wisdom, that we find it so hard to give up doing anything we have meant to do.
William Dean Howells quotes: She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth keeping; but at any rate she had lost it. She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth keeping; but at any rate she had lost it.
William Dean Howells quotes: He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence. He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
William Dean Howells quotes: We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these. We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.
William Dean Howells quotes: If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank. If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
William Dean Howells quotes: I am yours, for time and eternitytime and eternity. I am yours, for time and eternity
time and eternity.
William Dean Howells quotes: It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit. It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.
William Dean Howells quotes: Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month. Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month.
William Dean Howells quotes: What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
William Dean Howells quotes: I wonder why we hate the past so. I wonder why we hate the past so.

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