“Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
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**William Dean Howells** (March 1, 1837 – May 11, 1920) was an American realist novelist, literary critic, and playwright, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of *The Atlantic Monthly*, as well as for the novels *The Rise of Silas Lapham* and *A Traveler from Altruria*, and the Christmas story *Christmas Every Day*, which was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name.
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“Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
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“The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.”
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“Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?”
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“If we like a man's dream, we call him a reformer; if we don't like his dream, we call him a crank.”
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“It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.”
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“The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.”
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“What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending.”
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“The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all.”
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“He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence.”
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