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E.W. Howe

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Quotes by E.W. Howe

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.
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In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.
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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
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Half the time men think they are talking business, they are wasting time.
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When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
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When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.
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It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
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It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
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Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.
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Somehow, everyone hates to see an unusually pretty girl get married. It is like taking a bite out of a very fine-looking peach.
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Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.
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Few men progress, except as they are pushed along by events.
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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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A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.
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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.
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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.
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At first a woman doesn’t want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.
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At first a woman doesn’t want anything but a husband, but as soon as gets one, she wants everything else in the world.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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A woman is as old as she looks before breakfast.
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