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Them Quotes by E. W. Howe
- 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.
- Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.
- Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I…
- A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.
- How good we all are, in theory, to the old; and how in fact we wish them to wander off like old dogs, die without…
- There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.
- Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
- Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
- Every successful person I have heard of has done the best he could with the conditions as he found them, and not waited until next…
- When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
- The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
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