E. W. Howe Quotes - Page 7

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• Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

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  Youth

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• Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

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  Fake People, Women, Degrees

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• One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

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  Historical, Age, Growing

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• Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.

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  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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• If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

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  Expression, Giving, Literature

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• Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

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  Common Sense, Literature, Enthusiasm

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• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

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  Men, Rights, Ideas

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• The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

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  Humility, People, Modesty

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• There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

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  Hope, Aging, Well Known

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• When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."

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  Men, Glad, Better Off

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• A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

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  Love, Marriage, Husband

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• The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Emotional

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• People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.

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  People, Anxiety, Tolerate

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• If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.

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  Fool, Majority, World

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• Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.

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  Gathering, Guests, Eating

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• When a man asks your advice, he usually tells you just how he expects you to decide.

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  Men, Advice, Asks

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• A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

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  Fear, Men, Scared

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• We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

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  Life, Truth, Religion

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• A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country

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  Country, Men, Stubborn

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• If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

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  Singing, Church, Christianity

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• Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

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  Art, Moving, Book

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• Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.

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  Criticism, Crank, Critics

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• A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.

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  Busy, Persons, Know How

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• No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.

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  Poetry, Remember, Enough

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• No wonder the teacher knows so much; she has the book.

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  Education, Teacher, Book

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