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William Dean Howells [1837-1920] American

Rank: 101
Author, Novelist

William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright. Nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters", he was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly as well as his own prolific writings, including the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", and the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria.

Happiness, Respect, Space

Quote	Tags	Rank
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.	Happiness	101
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.		102
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.	Respect	103
Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?		104
Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.		105
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.		106
We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these.	Space	107
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.		108
A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it.		109
The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.		110
He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.		111
How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?		112
Primitive societies without religion have never been found.		113
Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.		114
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.		115
If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.		116
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.		117
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.		118
The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.		119
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.		120
Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.		121

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