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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
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
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
— William Dean Howells
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
It's astonishing how well the worse reason looks when you try to make it appear the better.
— William Dean Howells
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.
— William Dean Howells
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
— William Dean Howells
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
— William Dean Howells
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
I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.
— William Dean Howells
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
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
— William Dean Howells
If ever the public was betrayed by its press, it's ours.
— William Dean Howells
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
— William Dean Howells
Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the mouths of our eight-inch guns.
— William Dean Howells
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
— William Dean Howells
I haven't done anything--yet.
— William Dean Howells
Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them are ruinous! — William Dean Howells
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
— William Dean Howells
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
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
She liked the words; they satisfied her famine for phrases.
— William Dean Howells
The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
— William Dean Howells
Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
— William Dean Howells
The difficulty is to know conscience from self-interest.
— William Dean Howells
Forest to their fields of corn and tobacco on the fertile slopes and rich bottom-lands. The
— William Dean Howells
How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
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A friend knows how to allow for mere quantity in your talk, and only replies to the quality.
— William Dean Howells
See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
— William Dean Howells
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
— William Dean Howells
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
— William Dean Howells
People naturally despise a dependant.
— William Dean Howells
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
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
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
— William Dean Howells
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
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
I am yours, for time and eternitytime and eternity. — William Dean Howells
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
Some people stay longer in an hour than others do in a month.
— William Dean Howells
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
— William Dean Howells
I wonder why we hate the past so.
— William Dean Howells