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«I know, indeed, of nothing more subtle satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from a fine physical state. It cannot be bought. But it is the keenest joy, after all; and the toiler's truest and best reward.»
«The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.»
Author: William Dean Howells
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mortality
«It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.»
«We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.»
Author: William Dean Howells
«In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and . . . in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.»
«And the names he loved to hearHave been carved for many a yearOn the tomb.»
Author: William Dean Howells
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tomb
«Primitive societies without religion have never been found.»
Author: William Dean Howells
«We live, but a world has passed awayWith the years that perished to make us men.»
Author: William Dean Howells
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perished
«They are rather helplessly frank, but not, I hope, with all their rather helpless frankness, offensively frank.»
«Tomorrow I shall be sixty-nine, but I do not seem to care. I did not start the affair, and I have not been consulted about it at any step.»
Author: William Dean Howells
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Ageing
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