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Quotations by author » Edgar Watson Howe
American Editor, Novelist and Essayist, He was known as the Sage of Potato Hill, 1853-1937 |
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| A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around |
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| A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. |
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| A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife |
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| A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country |
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| A modest man is usually admired - if people ever hear of him |
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| A really busy person never knows how much he weighs |
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| A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person. |
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| A thief believes everybody steals. |
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| A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back |
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| Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him |
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| All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into. |
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| American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. |
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| Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. |
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| Any man who will look into his heart and honestly write what he sees there, will find plenty of readers. |
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| As a man handles his troubles during the day, so he goes to bed at night a General, Captain, or Private. |
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| Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone |
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| Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing but nobody else does. |
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