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William Dean Howells

"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week."

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"Some people can stay longer in an hour than others can in a week."

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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

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"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

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"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

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