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She liked the words, they satisfied her famine for phrases.

~ William Dean Howells

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Yes, there's sense in that. But the suddenly rich are on a level with any of us nowadays. Money buys position at once. I don't say that it isn't all right. The world generally knows what it's about, and knows how to drive a bargain. I dare say that it makes the new rich pay too much. But there's no doubt but money is to the fore now. It is the romance, the poetry of our age. It's the thing that chiefly strikes the imagination. The Englishmen who come here are more curious about the great new millionaires than about anyone else, and they respect them more. It's all very well. I don't complain of it.

~ William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells Position Wealth

Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world.

~ William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells Suffering

I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

~ William Dean Howells

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Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the animating spirit of our youth. It strikes at the foot of the feudal system!

~ William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells Class Struggle Humor Youth

Every one is expected to look out for himself here. I fancy that there would be very little rising if men were expected to rise for the sake of others, in America.

~ William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells Capitalism Individualism

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!

~ William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells Hero Heroism Realism Romanticism

Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all.

~ William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells Books Reading

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

~ William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells Bores Boredom

How strange it (the earthquake) must all have seemed to them, here where they lived so safely always! They thought such a dreadful thing could happen to others, but not to them. That is the way!

~ William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells Disaster Life Safety

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

~ William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells Best Action Greatest

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

~ William Dean Howells

William Dean Howells Heart Goodness Hold
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