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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
William Dean Howells
Books
Mortality
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
Mother
Man
How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
William Dean Howells
Luck
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
Dream
Man
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
Life
America
Europe
Trying
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
William Dean Howells
Heart
American
Inequality
Liberty
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
William Dean Howells
Venice
Worth
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
William Dean Howells
Soul
Voice
Primitive societies without religion have never been found.
William Dean Howells
Religion
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
William Dean Howells
People
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
William Dean Howells
Happiness
Action
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
William Dean Howells
Silence
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
Duty
Friends
Reason
Sense
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
William Dean Howells
Man
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
Affection
Man
Respect