More quotes by William Dean Howells
We live, but a world has passed away
With the years that perished to make us men.
What the American public wants is a tragedy with a happy ending.
If we love mankind, pity them, we even wish to suffer for them.
The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
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To sin by silence, when we should protest,
Makes cowards out of men.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
There are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence.
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