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8 quotesA man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know he sees it.
Mothers
William Dean Howells
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An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
Action
William Dean Howells
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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
Noise
William Dean Howells
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Inequality is as dear to the American heart as liberty itself.
Prejudice
William Dean Howells
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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
Voice
William Dean Howells
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Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
People
William Dean Howells
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
Books - Reading
William Dean Howells
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What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
Tragedies
William Dean Howells
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun