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"As light nourishes plants, wisdom nourishes sages."
"Beautiful silence is better than ugly speech."
"If you were brought up on a poor man's brand of drink and prefer that to this very day then do not pretend you like expensive wine."
"The beginning of wisdom is understanding that life is full of ongoing learning experiences."
"The post on her left was occupied by Mr. Erskine of Treadley, an old gentleman of considerable charm and culture, who had fallen, however, into bad habits of silence, having, as he explained once to Lady Agatha, said everything that he had to say before he was thirty."
Explore more quotes by William Dean Howells
"The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection."
"If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank."
"A man never sees all that his mother has been to him until it's too late to let her know that he sees it."
"We are creatures of the moment; we live from one little space to another, and only one interest at a time fills these."
"In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere."
"You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up."
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