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E. W. Howe
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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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A loafer never works except when there is a fire then he will carry out more furniture than anybody.
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You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
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The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.
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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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A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.
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No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.
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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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Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.
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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
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Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.
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Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.
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Where the guests at a gathering are well-acquainted, they eat 20 per cent more than they otherwise would.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.
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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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Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.
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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
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As soon as the people fix one Shame of the World, another turns up.
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I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.
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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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