More from William Dean Howells

  1. I am not sorry for having wrought in common, crude material so much; that is the right American stuff; and perhaps hereafter, when my din i…
  2. Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week.
  3. The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
  4. The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
  5. The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
  6. The secret of the man who is universally interesting is that he is universally interested.
  7. See how today's achievement is only tomorrow's confusion; See how possession always cheapens the thing that was precious.
  8. There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.

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