"People are always neglecting something they can do……" — E. W. Howe
"People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do."
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166 Quotes by E. W. Howe
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- Nothing tires a man more than to be grateful all the time.
- The government is mainly an expensive organization to regulate evildoers, and tax those who behave: government does little for fairly…
- When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
- No man's credit is ever as good as his money.
- American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.
- You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
- A woman might as well propose: her husband will claim she did.
- The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the…
- It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
- People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.
- The man who insists he as good as anybody, believes he is better.
- When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.