Quotes by Howells, William Dean




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"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it."

Howells, William Dean on mothers
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"He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence."

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"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week."

Howells, William Dean on people    Share

"I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward."

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"Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself."

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"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise."

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"The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all."

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"What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending."

Howells, William Dean on tragedies    Share

"It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom."

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