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E. W. Howe
Age: 84 †
Born: 1853
Born: May 3
Died: 1937
Died: October 3
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Novelist
Edgar Watson Howe
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The greatest thing in the world is for a man to be able to do something well, and say nothing about it.
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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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Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy
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When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.
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A man has his clothes made to fit him a woman makes herself fit her clothes.
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A reasonable probability is the only certainty.
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A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
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People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
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It is a matter of regret that many low, mean suspicions turn out to be well founded.
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A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.
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If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.
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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 man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.
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People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
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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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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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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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Men are a good deal better collectively than they are individually. Many a man will do that privately which he will denounce in a crowd.
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