Edgar Watson Howe
Quotes by Edgar Watson Howe
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When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
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When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
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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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Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other.
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When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
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A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.
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It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.
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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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The man who insists he is as good as anybody, believes he is better.
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It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
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A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
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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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Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
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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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If the fools do not control the world, it isn't because they are not in the majority.
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Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.
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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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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is any thing you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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