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The Story of a Country Town
E. W. HoweThe Story of a Country Town
E. W. HoweFamous E. W. Howe Quotes
“Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.”
E. W. Howe book The Story of a Country Town
The Story of a Country Town, Chapter 30 http://books.google.com/books?id=rbwEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Men+are+virtuous+because+the+women+are+women%22+%22virtuous+from+necessity%22&pg=PA353#v=onepage (1883).
“One of the most difficult things in the world is to learn to take a hint easily.”
County Town Sayings (1911), p111.
“However disagreeable a situation is to you, you cannot get rid of it by indignation.”
E.W. Howe's Monthly January, 1912.
E. W. Howe Quotes about people
“People hate the man who is a constant drain on their sympathy.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p25.
“Every time you become confidential with some people, you hear of a new kind of dirty trick.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p211.
“Automobiles are like people: the cheap ones are noisy.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p201.
Country Town Sayings (1911), p193.
E. W. Howe Quotes about the world
“The experience of the world is worth more than the experience of any one man.”
E.W. Howe's Monthly January 1912.
“No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p62.
Country Town Sayings (1911), p28.
E. W. Howe Quotes
“There is usually enough of everything on the table except cream.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p31.
Country Town Sayings (1911), p9.
Country Town Sayings (1911), p137.
“When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine he is that polite all the time.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p34.
Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p108.
“We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.”
Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p61.
Country Town Sayings (1911), p261.
“As a rule, you'll not have much trouble having your way, if you are right.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p49.
“A woman does not spend all her time in buying things; she spends part of it in taking them back.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p16.
Country Town Sayings (1911), p199.
“Silliness which would have broken a politician twenty years ago, now makes his fortune.”
Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p61.
“A small man always has one weapon he can use against a great big man: he can "talk" about him.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p298.
Source: Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p35.
Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p55.
Source: Ventures in Common Sense (1919), p171.
“A man needs a friend not to flatter him, but to strengthen him at his weak points.”
Country Town Sayings [An anthology of witty sentences by the author] (1911), p81.
“To want your own way is a very bad habit, for you will never get it.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p32.
“No man knows where his business ends and his neighbor's begins.”
Country Town Sayings (1911), p55.
“When you can't do anything else to a boy, you can make him wash his face.”
Travel Letters from New Zealand, Australia and Africa (1913), p120.
