“The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
Source: A Selected Edition of W. D. Howells
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“Why art thou but a nest of gloom While the bobolinks are singing?”
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“If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)