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Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
— William Dean Howells
Tags: books-and-reading

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He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.
— William Dean Howells
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The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.
— William Dean Howells
Tags: most, books, things, me
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.
— William Dean Howells
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The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
— William Dean Howells
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It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
— William Dean Howells
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