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A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

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E. W. Howe
Age: 84 †
Born: 1853
Born: May 3
Died: 1937
Died: October 3
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Edgar Watson Howe
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We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.
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There is only one thing people like that is good for them a good night's sleep.
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If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.
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If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.
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At first a woman doesn't want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.
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Good manners do more for a man that good looks.
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No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less
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When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
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When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.
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A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.
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A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
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Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.
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One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.
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Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy
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Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.
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Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman.
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Nothing pleases a woman quite so well as to look so sweet that a man wants to kiss her, and then abuse him for his impudence.
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