36 ordspråk av William Dean Howells

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William Dean Howells föddes den 1 maart 1837 och dog den 11 mei 1920 - US writer
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en You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
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en We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.
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en 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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en The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
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en What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
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en Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself
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en He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence
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en There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.
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en The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
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en The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection
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en If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.
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en How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
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en The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
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en 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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en It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
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