E. W. Howe Quotes - Page 2

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• The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly respectable people except annoy them.

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  Government, Organization, People

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• A man has a right to think lots of things he has no right to say.

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  Men, Thinking

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• There is only one thing for a man to do who is married to a woman who enjoys spending money, and that is to enjoy earning it.

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  Marriage, Money, Men

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• Marriage is a good deal like a circus: there is not as much in it as is represented in the advertising.

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  Funny Marriage, Circus, Advertising

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• No man is smart, except by comparison to those who know less

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  Smart, Men, Words Of Wisdom

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• When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

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  Life, Regret, Men

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• A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.

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  Marriage, Wedding, Husband

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• The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.

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  Love, Literature, World

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• Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy

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  Suffering, Injury, Remedy

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• The worst feeling in the world is the homesickness that comes over a man occasionally when he is at home.

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  Home, Men, Feelings

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• None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.

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  Funny, Doe, Records

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• Most people put off till tomorrow that which they should have done yesterday.

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  Should Have, Yesterday, People

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• Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.

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  Anniversary, Secret Love, Waiting

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• Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.

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  Faith, Home, Long

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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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  Men, Listening, Next

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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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  People, Trying, Neglect

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• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

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  Education, Teenage, Teaching

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• Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

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  Men, Reform, Peer Pressure

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• To be an ideal guest, stay at home.

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  New Year, Home, Guests

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• Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice of the enemy.

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  Courage, Bravery, Enemy

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• Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.

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  Insult, Lawsuit

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• All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.

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  People, Literature, Married

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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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  Men, World, Able

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• I try to have no plans the failure of which would greatly annoy me. Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable, and often impossible.

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  Trying, Half, World

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• What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.

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  Common Sense, Results, Worthy

  Sinner Sermons (p. 7)

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