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William Dean Howells Quotes: See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
         

See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion;See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.


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



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In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.



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The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.



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.

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.



He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.



The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.

The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars, or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death and sorrow.



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



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



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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