Quotes by William Dean Howells

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• A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.

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• An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.

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• He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.

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• Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.

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

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

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• The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.

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

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Subjects in these quotes:

• performance
• inequality
• deafening
• mortality
• inanimate
• terrible

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