E. W. Howe
E. W. Howe
Edgar Watson Howe, sometimes referred to as E. W. Howe, was an American novelist and newspaper and magazine editor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was perhaps best known for his magazine, E.W. Howe's Monthly. Howe was well traveled and known for his sharp wit in his editorials...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 May 1853
CountryUnited States of America
food thinking eating
Most of us are either too think to enjoy eating, or too fat to enjoy walking.
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Raising children is like making biscuits: it is as easy to raise a big batch as one, while you have your hands in the dough.
marriage wedding husband
A man should be taller, older, heavier, uglier, and hoarser than his wife.
youth
Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.
government organization people
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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No man's credit is ever as good as his money.
forgiveness im-sorry apology
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
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It is your enemies who keep you straight. For real use one active, sneering enemy is worth two ordinary friends.
humility people modesty
The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
keeping-promises people broken-promises
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
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Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.