Edward W. Howe Quotes

• Instead of loving your enemies – treat your friends a little better.

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  Topics in Friendship

  Tags in Loving, Enemies

• What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Community, Reputation

• It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Student, Problems, Algebra, Geometry

• No man would listen to you talk if he didn’t know it was his turn next.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Talk

• No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Woman, Better, Opinion

• Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

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  Topics in Work

  Tags in ideal

• A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theory, Fact, Photograph

• If you don’t learn to laugh at troubles, you won’t have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Troubles

• Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in American, Public

• A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

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  Topics in Advice

  Tags in Scare, Worth

• A thief believes everybody steals.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thief, Believe

• People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can’t do.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People

• The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Argument

• 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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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hope

• When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself, Trouble

• When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Music

• You needn’t love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

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  Topics in Enemy, Love

• Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

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  Topics in Death

  Tags in Kill, Men

• Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men

• There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Men

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