E. W. Howe Quotes - Page 7

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• Put cream and sugar on a fly and it tastes very much like a raspberry.

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  Sugar, Taste, Raspberries

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• When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.

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  Business, Men, Trying

  "Country Town Sayings: A Collection of Paragraphs from the Atchison Globe". Book by Edgar Watson Howe, p. 34, 1911.

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• I have long been disposed to judge men by their average. If it is reasonably high, I am charitable with faults that look pretty black.

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  Men, Average, Long

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• Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.

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  Children, Parenting, Hands

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• Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

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  Fake People, Women, Degrees

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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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  Gathering, Guests, Eating

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• When a man once gets a start holding office, it is nearly always necessary to finally choke him off.

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  Men, Office, Political

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• A really busy person never knows how much he weighs.

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  Busy, Persons, Know How

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• I declare my belief that it is not your duty to do anything that is not to your own interest. Whenever it is unquestionably your duty to do a thing, then it will benefit you to perform that duty.

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  Benefits, Belief, Duty

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• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

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  Men, Rights, Ideas

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• Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.

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  Common Sense, Literature, Enthusiasm

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• One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.

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  Historical, Age, Growing

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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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  Expression, Giving, Literature

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• No really sensible person ever remembers enough poetry to recite it.

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  Poetry, Remember, Enough

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• The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.

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  Humility, People, Modesty

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• A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

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  Men, Religion, Wicked

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• We must be truthful and fair in the ordinary affairs of life before we can be truthful and fair in patriotism and religion.

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  Life, Truth, Religion

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• If you go to church, and like the singing better than the preaching, that's not orthodox.

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  Singing, Church, Christianity

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• A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.

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  Fear, Men, Scared

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• The way to keep a cat is to try to chase it away.

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  Cat, Animal, Humanity

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• We love the Lord, of course, but we often wonder what He finds in us.

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  God, Wonder, Lord

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• Probably you have noted the resemblance of the critic to the crank.

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  Criticism, Crank, Critics

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• The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.

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  Sleep, Insomnia, Emotional

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• A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.

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  Love, Marriage, Husband

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• American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

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  Freedom, Talking, Nonsense

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