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William Dean Howells
American
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About the author
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
William Dean Howells,
American
Author
#Man
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,
American
Author
#Reason
#Friends
#Sense
#Duty
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
William Dean Howells,
American
Author
#Silence
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
William Dean Howells,
American
Author
#Action
#Happiness
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
William Dean Howells,
American
Author
#People
Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
William Dean Howells,
American
Author
#Religion
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
William Dean Howells,
American
Author
#Soul
#Voice
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
William Dean Howells,
American
Author
#Worth
#Venice
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
William Dean Howells,
American
Author
#Heart
#Liberty
#American
#Inequality
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,
American
Author
#Life
#Trying
#Europe
#America
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,
American
Author
#Man
#Dream
How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
William Dean Howells,
American
Author
#Luck
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,
American
Author
#Man
#Mother
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
William Dean Howells,
American
Author
#Books
#Mortality
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,
American
Author
#Time
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.
William Dean Howells,
American
Author
#Heart
#Wisdom
#Goodness
#Sisters
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
William Dean Howells,
American
Author
#Public
#Ending
#American
#Tragedy
#Theater
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,
American
Author
#Time
#Interest
#Space
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,
American
Author
#Care
#Tomorrow
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.
William Dean Howells,
American
Author
#Will
#World
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,
American
Author
#Respect
#Man
#Affection