The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
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How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?William Dean Howells
I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all and the toiler's truest and best reward.
William Dean Howells
There will presently be no room in the world for things; it will be filled up with the advertisements of things.
William Dean Howells
Nay, to earth's life in mine some prescience, or dream, or desire
(How shall I name it aright?
William Dean Howells
In a moment it had come, the first serious dispute of their wedded life. It had come as all such calamities come, from nothing, and it was on them in full disaster ere they knew.
William Dean Howells
In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.
William Dean Howells
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