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Famous E. W. Howe Quotes
“People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.”
“The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.”
“When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.”
“There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.”
“When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.”
“There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.”
“People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.”
“The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.”
“All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.”
“The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.”
“Probably no man ever had a friend that he did not dislike a little.”
“Success does not mean happiness: it means an unusual number of industrious enemies.”
“No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.”
“Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.”
“Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.”
“A man has his clothes made to fit him; a woman makes herself fit her clothes.”
“For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.”
“Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.”
“No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.”
“A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country”
“I believe in grumbling; it is the politest form of fighting known.”
“Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.”
“No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less”