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+Title: Widger's Quotations from the Works of William Dean Howells
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+WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS
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+FROM THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EDITION
+OF THE WORKS OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
+
+
+
+
+THESE BOOKS OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
+ARE PRESENTLY LISTED BY PROJECT GUTENBERG:
+
+STUDIES:
+     Henry James, Jr.
+     The Man of Letters as a Man of Business
+     A Psychological Counter-current in Recent Fiction.
+     Emile Zola
+     Literary Friends and Acquaintances
+          Biographical
+          My First Visit to New England
+          First Impressions of Literary New York
+          Roundabout to Boston
+          Literary Boston As I Knew It
+          Oliver Wendell Holmes
+          The White Mr. Longfellow
+          Studies of Lowell
+          Cambridge Neighbors
+          A Belated Guest
+          My Mark Twain
+
+     Literature and Life
+          Man of Letters in Business
+          Confessions of a Summer Colonist
+          The Young Contributor
+          Last Days in a Dutch Hotel
+          Anomalies of the Short Story
+          Spanish Prisoners of War
+          American Literary Centers
+          Standard Household Effect Co.
+          Notes of a Vanished Summer
+          Worries of a Winter Walk
+          Summer Isles of Eden
+          Wild Flowers of the Asphalt
+          A Circus in the Suburbs
+          A She Hamlet
+          The Midnight Platoon
+          The Beach at Rockaway
+          Sawdust in the Arena
+          At a Dime Museum
+          American Literature in Exile
+          The Horse Show
+          The Problem of the Summer
+          Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago
+          From New York into New England
+          The Art of the Adsmith
+          The Psychology of Plagiarism
+          Puritanism in American Fiction
+          The What and How in Art
+          Politics in American Authors
+          Storage
+          "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o"
+
+     My Literary Passions
+          The Bookcase at Home
+          Goldsmith
+          Cervantes
+          Irving
+          First Fiction and Drama
+          Longfellow's "Spanish Student"
+          Scott
+          Lighter Fancies
+          Pope
+          Various Preferences
+          Uncle Tom's Cabin
+          Ossian
+          Shakespeare
+          Ik Marvel
+          Dickens
+          Wordsworth, Lowell, Chaucer
+          Macaulay.
+          Critics and Reviews.
+          A Non-literary Episode
+          Thackeray
+          "Lazarillo De Tormes"
+          Curtis, Longfellow, Schlegel
+          Tennyson
+          Heine
+          De Quincey, Goethe, Longfellow.
+          George Eliot, Hawthorne, Goethe, Heine
+          Charles Reade
+          Dante
+          Goldoni, Manzoni, D'azeglio
+          "Pastor Fido," "Aminta," "Romola," "Yeast," "Paul Ferroll"
+          Erckmann-chatrian, Bjorstjerne Bjornson
+          Tourguenief, Auerbach
+          Certain Preferences and Experiences
+          Valdes, Galdos, Verga, Zola, Trollope, Hardy
+          Tolstoy
+
+     Criticism and Fiction
+
+NOVELS:
+     The Rise of Silas Lapham
+     An Open-eyed Conspiracy--an Idyl of Saratoga
+     The Landlord at Lions Head, v1
+     The Landlord at Lions Head, v2
+     Their Wedding Journey
+          The Outset
+          A Midsummer-day's Dream
+          The Night Boat
+          A Day's Railroading
+          The Enchanted City, and Beyond
+          Niagara
+          Down the St. Lawrence
+          The Sentiment of Montreal
+          Homeward and Home
+          Niagara Revisited Twelve Years after Their Wedding
+     A Hazard of New Fortunes
+          Part 1
+          Part 2
+          Part 3
+          Part 4
+          Part 5
+     Their Silver Wedding Journey
+          Volume 1
+          Volume 2
+          Volume 3
+     Dr. Breen's Practice
+     Fennel and Rue,
+     The Kentons
+     Ragged Lady, v1
+     Ragged Lady, v2
+     April Hopes
+
+PLAYS:
+     The Sleeping-Car
+     The Garotters
+     The Elevator
+     The Parlor-Car
+     The Register
+
+
+
+
+
+QUOTATIONS HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM THE FOLLOWING FILES:
+
+Sep 2002 Ragged Lady, V2, by William Dean Howells   [WH#52][wh2rl10.txt]3406
+
+Sep 2002 Ragged Lady, V1, by William Dean Howells   [WH#51][wh1rl10.txt]3405
+
+Sep 2002 April Hopes, by William Dean Howells       [WH#50][whapr10.txt]3404
+
+Aug 2002 Entire PG Edition Of William Dean Howells  [WH#47][whewk10.txt]3400
+
+Aug 2002 Of Literature--Entire,  by W. D. Howells   [WH#46][whlfr10.txt]3399
+
+Aug 2002 First Visit To New England, by W. Howells  [WH#45][whvne10.txt]3398
+[Full Title: My First Visit To New England,  by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+CONTENTS:
+     Bibliographical
+     My First Visit To New England
+     First Impressions Of Literary New York
+
+Aug 2002 Roundabout To Boston, by W. D. Howells     [WH#44][whrtb10.txt]3397
+[Full Title: Roundabout To Boston, by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 Literary Boston, by William Dean Howells   [WH#43][whbos10.txt]3396
+[Full Title: Literary Boston As I Knew It, by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 Oliver Wendell Holmes, by W. D. Howells    [WH#42][whowh10.txt]3395
+[Full Title: Oliver Wendell Holmes, by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 The White Mr. Longfellow, by W. Howells    [WH#41][whlng10.txt]3394
+[Full Title: The White Mr. Longfellow, by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 Studies Of Lowell, by William Dean Howells [WH#40][whlow10.txt]3393
+[Full Title: Studies Of Lowell, by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 Cambridge Neighbors, by W. D. Howells      [WH#39][whcbn10.txt]3392
+[Full Title: Cambridge Neighbors, by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 A Belated Guest, by Willam Dean Howells    [WH#38][whabg10.txt]3391
+[Full Title: A Belated Guest, by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 My Mark Twain, by Willam Dean Howells      [WH#37][whmmt10.txt]3390
+[Full Title: My Mark Twain, by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 Complete Literature And Life, by Howells   [WH#36][whlal10.txt]3389
+[Full Title: Literature And Life [Studies]  by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+CONTENTS:
+     Man of Letters in Business
+     Confessions of a Summer Colonist
+     The Young Contributor
+     Last Days in a Dutch Hotel
+     Anomalies of the Short Story
+     Spanish Prisoners of War
+     American Literary Centers
+     Standard Household Effect Co.
+     Notes of a Vanished Summer
+     Worries of a Winter Walk
+     Summer Isles of Eden
+     Wild Flowers of the Asphalt
+     A Circus in the Suburbs
+     A She Hamlet
+     The Midnight Platoon
+     The Beach at Rockaway
+     Sawdust in the Arena
+     At a Dime Museum
+     American Literature in Exile
+     The Horse Show
+     The Problem of the Summer
+     Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago
+     From New York into New England
+     The Art of the Adsmith
+     The Psychology of Plagiarism
+     Puritanism in American Fiction
+     The What and How in Art
+     Politics in American Authors
+     Storage
+     "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o"
+
+Aug 2002 Man Of Letters In Business, by W. Howells  [WH#35][whmlb10.txt]3388
+[Full Title: The Man Of Letters As A Man Of Business by  W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 Confessions Of Summer Colonist, by Howells [WH#34][whcsc10.txt]3387
+[Full Title: Confessions Of A Summer Colonist  W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 The Young Contributor, by W. D. Howells    [WH#33][whtyc10.txt]3386
+[Full Title: The Editor's Relations With The Young Contributor by  W. D.
+Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 Last Days In A Dutch Hotel, by W. Howells  [WH#32][whldh10.txt]3385
+[Full Title: Last Days In A Dutch Hotel by  W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 Anomalies Of The Short Story, by Howells   [WH#31][whass10.txt]3384
+[Full Title: Some Anomalies Of The Short Story by  W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 Spanish Prisoners Of War, by W. Howells    [WH#30][whspw10.txt]3383
+[Full Title: Spanish Prisoners Of War by  W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 American Literary Centers, by W. Howells   [WH#29][whalc10.txt]3382
+[Full Title: American Literary Centers, by  W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 Standard Household Effect Co., by Howells  [WH#28][whshe10.txt]3381
+[Full Title: The Standard Household-Effect Company, by  W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 Notes Of A Vanished Summer, by W. Howells  [WH#27][whvan10.txt]3380
+[Full Title: Stacatto Notes Of A Vanished Summer, by  W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 Short Stories And Essays, by W. Howells    [WH#26][whsse10.txt]3379
+[Full Title: Literature And Life [Studies]  W. D. Howells, 1911]
+CONTENTS:
+     Worries of a Winter Walk
+     Summer Isles of Eden
+     Wild Flowers of the Asphalt
+     A Circus in the Suburbs
+     A She Hamlet
+     The Midnight Platoon
+     The Beach at Rockaway
+     Sawdust in the Arena
+     At a Dime Museum
+     American Literature in Exile
+     The Horse Show
+     The Problem of the Summer
+     Aesthetic New York Fifty-odd Years Ago
+     From New York into New England
+     The Art of the Adsmith
+     The Psychology of Plagiarism
+     Puritanism in American Fiction
+     The What and How in Art
+     Politics in American Authors
+     Storage
+     "Floating down the River on the O-hi-o"
+
+Aug 2002 My Literary Passions, by W. D. Howells     [WH#25][whmlp10.txt]3378
+[Full Title: My Literary Passions/Criticism & Fiction  by W. D. Howells, 1910]
+
+Aug 2002 Criticism and Fiction, by W. D. Howells    [WH#24][whcaf10.txt]3377
+[Full Title: My Literary Passions/Criticism & Fiction  by W. D. Howells, 1910]
+
+Aug 2002 The Landlord At Lions Head V2, by Howells  [WH#23][wh2lh10.txt]3376
+Aug 2002 The Landlord At Lions Head V1, by Howells  [WH#22][wh1lh10.txt]3375
+[Full Title: The Landlord At Lion's Head by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 The Entire March Family Trilogy, by Howells[WH#21][whemf10.txt]3374
+CONTENTS:
+     Their Wedding Journey
+     A Hazard Of New Fortunes
+     Their Silver Wedding Journey
+
+Aug 2002 Silver Wedding Journey V3 by W. D. Howells [WH#20][wh3sw10.txt]3373
+[Full Title: Their Silver Wedding Journey, by W. D. Howells, 1900]
+
+Aug 2002 Silver Wedding Journey V2, by W. D. Howells[WH#19][wh2sw10.txt]3372
+[Full Title: Their Silver Wedding Journey, by W. D. Howells, 1900]
+
+Aug 2002 Silver Wedding Journey V1, by W. D. Howells[WH#18][wh1sw10.txt]3371
+[Full Title: Their Silver Wedding Journey, by W. D. Howells, 1900]
+
+Aug 2002 A Hazard Of New Fortunes V5, by W. Howells [WH#17][wh5nf10.txt]3370
+[Full Title: A Hazard Of New Fortunes by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+
+Aug 2002 A Hazard Of New Fortunes V4, by W. Howells [WH#16][wh4nf10.txt]3369
+[Full Title: A Hazard Of New Fortunes by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 A Hazard Of New Fortunes V3, by W. Howells [WH#15][wh3nf10.txt]3368
+[Full Title: A Hazard Of New Fortunes by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 A Hazard Of New Fortunes V2, by W. Howells [WH#14][wh2nf10.txt]3367
+[Full Title: A Hazard Of New Fortunes by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 A Hazard Of New Fortunes V1, by W. Howells [WH#13][wh1nf10.txt]3366
+[Full Title: A Hazard Of New Fortunes by W. D. Howells, 1911]
+
+Aug 2002 Their Wedding Journey, by W. D. Howells    [WH#12][whtwj10.txt]3365
+[Full Title: Their Wedding Journey, by W. D. Howells, 1895]
+
+Aug 2002 Dr. Breen's Practice, by W. D. Howells     [WH#11][whdbp10.txt]3364
+[Full Title: Dr. Breen's Practice, by W. D. Howells, 1881]
+
+Aug 2002 Fennel And Rue, by William Dean Howells    [WH#10][whfar10.txt]3363
+[Full Title: Fennel And Rue, by W. D. Howells, 1908]
+
+Aug 2002 The Kentons, by William Dean Howells       [WH#09][whken10.txt]3362
+[Full Title: The Kentons, by W. D. Howells, 1902]
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                              EDITOR'S NOTE
+
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+may wish to see if their favorite passages are listed in this
+selection.  The etext editor will be glad to add your suggestions.
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+
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+questions or suggested additions to these extracts.
+
+D.W.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+                           WIDGER'S QUOTATIONS
+
+
+
+THE KENTONS
+[WH#09][whken10.txt]3362
+
+"Well, that's good," said the young man, and while he talked on she sat
+wondering at a nature which all modesty and deference seemed left out of,
+though he had sometimes given evidence of his intellectual appreciation
+of these things.
+
+She was polite to them all, but to Boyne she was flattering, and he was
+too little used to deference from ladies ten years his senior not to be
+very sensible of her worth in offering it.
+
+She in turn, to be sure, offered herself a sacrifice to the whims of the
+sick girl, whose worst whim was having no wish that could be ascertained,
+and who now, after two days of her mother's devotion, was cast upon her
+own resources by the inconstant barometer.
+
+It was more difficult for Mrs. Kenton to get rid of the judge, but an
+inscrutable frown goes far in such exigencies.
+
+
+
+
+
+FENNEL AND RUE
+[WH#10][whfar10.txt]3363
+
+I used almost to die of hunger for something to happen.
+
+She had downed the hoary superstition that people had too much of a good
+time on Christmas to want any good time at all in the week following; and
+in acting upon the well-known fact that you never wanted a holiday so
+much as the day after you had one, she had made a movement of the highest
+social importance.
+
+She added, less sharply: "She couldn't afford to fail, though, at any
+point. The fad that fails is extinguished forever. Will these simple
+facts do for fiction? Or is it for somebody in real life you're asking,
+Mr. Verrian?"
+
+
+
+
+
+DR. BREEN'S PRACTICE
+[WH#11][whdbp10.txt]3364
+
+The neat weather-gray dwellings, shingled to the ground and brightened
+with door-yard flowers and creepers, straggled off into the boat-houses
+and fishing-huts on the shore, and the village seemed to get afloat at
+last in the sloops and schooners riding in the harbor, whose smooth plane
+rose higher to the eye than the town itself.
+
+Very probably Dr. Mulbridge would not have recognized himself in the
+character of all-compelling lady's-novel hero, which Miss Gleason
+imagined for him.
+
+Dr. Mulbridge smiled, as if he perceived her intention not to tell him
+something she wished to tell him.
+
+"I believe that if Mrs. Maynard had had the same confidence in me that
+she would have had in any man I should not have failed. But every woman
+physician has a double disadvantage that I hadn't the strength to
+overcome,--her own inexperience and the distrust of other women."
+
+
+
+
+
+THEIR WEDDING JOURNEY
+[WH#12][whtwj10.txt]3365
+
+In the distance on either hand they could see cars and carts and wagons
+toiling up and down the avenues, and on the next intersecting pavement
+sometimes a laborer with his jacket slung across his shoulder, or a dog
+that had plainly made up his mind to go mad.
+
+Then it appeared that the cook would not believe in them, and he did not
+send them, till they were quite faint, the peppery and muddy draught
+which impudently affected to be coffee, the oily slices of fugacious
+potatoes slipping about in their shallow dish and skillfully evading
+pursuit, the pieces of beef that simulated steak, the hot, greasy
+biscuit, steaming evilly up into the face when opened, and then soddening
+into masses of condensed dyspepsia.
+
+"No," said Basil, not yet used to having his decisions reached without
+his knowledge.
+
+In a moment it had come, the first serious dispute of their wedded life.
+It had come as all such calamities come, from nothing, and it was on them
+in full disaster ere they knew.
+
+(A reader suggested this additional quote:)
+I suppose that almost any evil commends itself by its ruin; the wrecks of
+slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.
+
+
+
+
+
+A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES, V1
+[WH#13][wh1nf10.txt]3366
+
+She was a little worn out with the care of housekeeping--Mrs. March
+breathed, "Oh yes!" in the sigh with which ladies recognize one another's
+martyrdom--
+
+He experienced remorse in the presence of inanimate things he was going
+to leave as if they had sensibly reproached him, and an anticipative
+homesickness that seemed to stop his heart.
+
+They were at that time of life when people first turn to their children's
+opinion with deference.
+
+He expected to do the wrong thing when left to his own devices, and he
+did it without any apparent recollection of his former misdeeds and their
+consequences. There was a good deal of comedy in it all, and some
+tragedy.
+
+She expected him in this event to do as he pleased, and she resigned
+herself to it with considerable comfort in holding him accountable. He
+learned to expect this, and after suffering keenly from her
+disappointment with whatever he did he waited patiently till she forgot
+her grievance and began to extract what consolation lurks in the
+irreparable.
+
+
+
+
+
+A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES, V2
+[WH#14][wh2nf10.txt]3367
+
+"Now, Alma," said her mother, with the clinging persistence of such
+natures.
+
+Mrs. March asked her husband what a dividend was. "It's a chicken before
+it's hatched."
+
+"I am not blue, Alma. But I cannot endure this--this hopefulness of
+yours."
+
+What you want is some man who can have patience with mediocrity putting
+on the style of genius, and with genius turning mediocrity on his hands.
+
+You know we Southerners have all had to go to woak. But Ah don't mand it.
+I tell papa I shouldn't ca' fo' the disgrace of bein' poo' if it wasn't
+fo' the inconvenience."
+
+He had that timidity of the elder in the presence of the younger man
+which the younger, preoccupied with his own timidity in the presence of
+the elder, cannot imagine.
+
+
+
+
+
+A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES, V3
+[WH#15][wh3nf10.txt]3368
+
+Dryfoos complained to his wife on the basis of mere affectional habit,
+which in married life often survives the sense of intellectual equality.
+He did not expect her to reason with him, but there was help in her
+listening, and though she could only soothe his fretfulness with soft
+answers which were often wide of the purpose, he still went to her for
+solace.
+
+He began to brag of his wife, as a good husband always does when another
+woman charms him.
+
+His courage hadn't been put to the test, and courage is a matter of
+proof, like proficiency on the fiddle, you know: you can't tell whether
+you've got it till you try."
+
+I wish that old friend of hers would hurry up and git well--or something.
+
+Men who have made money and do not yet know that money has made them....
+
+
+
+
+
+A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES, V4
+[WH#16][wh4nf10.txt]3369
+
+He seemed to be lying in wait for some encroachment of the literary
+department on the art department, and he met it now and then with
+anticipative reprisal.
+
+In the course of his married life March had learned not to censure the
+irretrievable; but this was just what his wife had not learned....
+
+She was too ignorant of her ignorance to recognize the mistakes she made.
+
+But in these matters we have no right to burden our friends with our
+decisions."
+
+The Marches had no longer the gross appetite for novelty which urges
+youth to a surfeit of strange scenes, experiences, ideas; and makes
+travel, with all its annoyances and fatigues, an inexhaustible delight.
+
+
+
+
+
+A HAZARD OF NEW FORTUNES, V5
+[WH#17][wh5nf10.txt]3370
+
+Death is an exile that no remorse and no love can reach. Remember that,
+and be good to every one here on earth, for your longing to retrieve any
+harshness or unkindness to the dead will be the very ecstasy of anguish
+to you.
+
+"Oh, death doesn't look bad," said March. "It's life that looks so in its
+presence. Death is peace and pardon.
+
+Does any one deserve happiness?
+
+Let their love of justice hurry them into sympathy with violence.
+
+"Does anything from without change us?" her husband mused aloud. "We're
+brought up to think so by the novelists, who really have the charge of
+people's thinking, nowadays.
+
+"Yes, people that have convictions are difficult. Fortunately, they're
+rare."
+
+To do whatever one likes is finally to do nothing that one likes, even
+though one continues to do what one will....
+
+
+
+
+SILVER WEDDING JOURNEY, V1
+[WH#18][wh1sw10.txt]3371
+
+The wars come and go in blood and tears; but whether they are bad wars,
+or what are comically called good wars, they are of one effect in death
+and sorrow.
+
+I don't know. It seems to me that I'm less and less certain of everything
+that I used to be sure of.
+
+But the madness of sight-seeing, which spoils travel, was on them, and
+they delivered themselves up to it as they used in their ignorant youth,
+though now they knew its futility so well. They spared themselves nothing
+that they had time for.
+
+Men would say anything from a reckless and culpable optimism.
+
+While they all talked on together, and repeated the nothings they had
+said already....
+
+
+
+
+
+SILVER WEDDING JOURNEY, V2
+[WH#19][wh2sw10.txt]3372
+It's so deeply founded in nature that after denying royalty by word and
+deed for a hundred years, we Americans are hungrier for it than anybody
+else.
+
+He buys my poverty and not my will.
+
+There was no wild life to penetrate his isolation; no birds, not a
+squirrel, not an insect; an old man who had bidden him good-morning, as
+he came up, kept fumbling at the path with his hoe, and was less
+intrusive than if he had not been there.
+
+He lost the sense of his wife's presence, and answered her vaguely. She
+talked contentedly on in the monologue to which the wives of absent-
+minded men learn to resign themselves.
+
+The disadvantage of living long is that we get too much into the hands of
+other people.
+
+
+
+
+
+SILVER WEDDING JOURNEY, V3
+[WH#20][wh3sw10.txt]3373
+
+Summoned the passengers to declare that they had nothing to declare, as a
+preliminary to being searched like thieves at the dock.
+
+It's the illusions: no marriage can be perfect without them, and at their
+age the Kenbys can't have them.
+
+You expected the ideal. And that's what makes all the trouble, in married
+life: we expect too much of each other--we each expect more of the other
+than we are willing to give or can give. If I had to begin over again, I
+should not expect anything at all, and then I should be sure of being
+radiantly happy.
+
+She always came to his defence when he accused himself; it was the best
+ground he could take with her.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE ENTIRE MARCH FAMILY TRILOGY
+[WH#21][whemf10.txt]3374
+
+The sea-sickness was confined to those who seemed wilful sufferers.
+
+The voting-cattle whom they bought and sold.
+
+There is little proportion about either pain or pleasure: a headache
+darkens the universe while it lasts, a cup of tea really lightens the
+spirit bereft of all reasonable consolations.
+
+She has a great respect for your mind, but she don't think you've got any
+sense.
+
+Uncounted thousands within doors prolonging, before the day's terror
+began, the oblivion of sleep.
+
+She wonders the happiest women in the world can look each other in the
+face without bursting into tears, their happiness is so unreasonable, and
+so built upon and hedged about with misery. She declares that there's
+nothing so sad to her as a bride, unless it's a young mother, or a little
+girl growing up in the innocent gayety of her heart. She wonders they can
+live through it.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE LANDLORD AT LIONS HEAD, V1
+[WH#22][wh1lh10.txt]3375
+
+Crimson torch of a maple, kindled before its time
+Disposition to use his friends
+Fear of asking too much and the folly of asking too little
+Government is best which governs least
+Honesty is difficult
+Insensate pride that mothers have in their children's faults
+Joyful shame of children who have escaped punishment
+Married Man: after the first start-off he don't try
+Nothing in the way of sport, as people commonly understand it
+People whom we think unequal to their good fortune
+Society interested in a woman's past, not her future
+The great trouble is for the man to be honest with her
+We're company enough for ourselves
+Women talked their follies and men acted theirs
+World seems to always come out at the same hole it went in at!
+
+
+
+
+
+THE LANDLORD AT LIONS HEAD, V2
+[WH#23][wh2lh10.txt]3376
+
+Boldest man is commonly a little behind a timid woman
+Crimson which stained the tops and steeps of snow
+Errors of a weak man, which were usually the basest
+Exchanging inaudible banalities
+He might walk home with her if he would not seem to do so
+He's the same kind of a man that he was a boy
+Hollow hilarities which people use to mask their indifference
+If one must, it ought to be champagne
+Intent upon some point in the future
+No two men see the same star
+Pathetic hopefulness
+Picture which, he said to himself, no one would believe in
+Quiet but rather dull look of people slightly deaf
+Stupefied by a life of unalloyed prosperity and propriety
+To be exemplary is as dangerous as to be complimentary
+Want something hard, don't you know; but I want it to be easy
+With all her insight, to have very little artistic sense
+World made up of two kinds of people
+
+
+
+
+
+CRITICISM AND FICTION
+[WH#24][whcaf10.txt]3377
+
+Authorities
+Browbeat wholesome common-sense into the self-distrust
+Comfort from the thought that most things cannot be helped
+Concerning popularity as a test of merit in a book
+Critical vanity and self-righteousness
+Critics are in no sense the legislators of literature
+Dickens rescued Christmas from Puritan distrust
+Fact that it is hash many times warmed over that reassures them
+Forbear the excesses of analysis
+Glance of the common eye, is and always was the best light
+Greatest classics are sometimes not at all great
+Holiday literature
+Imitators of one another than of nature
+Languages, while they live, are perpetually changing
+Let fiction cease to lie about life
+Long-puerilized fancy will bear an endless repetition
+Made them talk as seldom man and never woman talked
+No greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth
+Novels hurt because they are not true
+Plain industry and plodding perseverance are despised
+Pseudo-realists
+Public wish to be amused rather than edified
+Teach what they do not know
+Tediously analytical
+Unless we prefer a luxury of grief
+Vulgarity: bad art to lug it in
+Whatever is established is sacred with those who do not think
+
+
+
+
+
+MY LITERARY PASSIONS
+[WH#25][whmlp10.txt]3378
+
+Account of one's reading is an account of one's life
+Affections will not be bidden
+Air of looking down on the highest
+Authors I must call my masters
+Capriciousness of memory: what it will hold and what lose
+Contemptible he found our pseudo-equality
+Criticism still remains behind all the other literary arts
+Dickens is purely democratic
+Escaped at night and got into the boy's dreams
+Fictions subtle effect for good and for evil on the young
+Hardly any sort of bloodshed which I would not pardon
+Hospitable gift of making you at home with him
+In school there was as little literature then as there is now
+Inexperience takes this effect (literary lewdness) for reality
+Kindness and gentleness are never out of fashion
+Kissing goes by favor, in literature as in life
+Lewd literature seems to give a sanction to lewdness in the life
+Made many of my acquaintances very tired of my favorite authors
+Mustache, which in those days devoted a man to wickedness
+My own youth now seems to me rather more alien
+My reading gave me no standing among the boys
+Never appeals to the principle which sniffs, in his reader
+None of the passions are reasoned
+Now little notion what it was about, but I love its memory
+Prejudice against certain words that I cannot overcome
+Rapture of the new convert could not last
+Responsibility of finding him all we have been told he is
+Secretly admires the splendors he affects to despise
+Self-satisfied, intolerant, and hypocritical provinciality
+Should probably have wasted the time if I had not read them
+So long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs
+Somewhat too studied grace
+Speaks it is not with words and blood, but with words and ink
+Spit some hapless victim: make him suffer and the reader laugh
+Style is the man, and he cannot hide himself in any garb
+Trace no discrepancy between reading his plays and seeing them
+Tried to like whatever they bade me like
+Truth is beyond invention
+We did not know that we were poor
+We see nothing whole, neither life nor art
+What I had not I could hope for without unreason
+What we thought ruin, but what was really release
+When was love ever reasoned?
+Wide leisure of a country village
+Words of learned length and thundering sound
+World's memory is equally bad for failure and success
+Worst came it was not half so bad as what had gone before
+You cannot be at perfect ease with a friend who does not joke
+You may do a great deal(of work), and not get on
+
+
+
+
+
+SHORT STORIES AND ESSAYS
+[WH#26][whsse10.txt]3379
+
+Aim at nothing higher than the amusement of your readers
+Any man's country could get on without him
+Begun to fight with want from their cradles
+Could not, as the saying is, find a stone to throw at a dog
+Disbeliever in punishments of all sorts
+Do not want to know about such squalid lives
+Early self-helpfulness of children is very remarkable
+Encounter of old friends after the lapse of years
+Even a day's rest is more than most people can bear
+Eyes fixed steadfastly upon the future
+For most people choice is a curse
+General worsening of things, familiar after middle life
+Happy in the indifference which ignorance breeds in us
+Hard to think up anything new
+Heart of youth aching for their stoical sorrows
+Heighten our suffering by anticipation
+If one were poor, one ought to be deserving
+Look of challenge, of interrogation, almost of reproof
+Malevolent agitators
+Meet here to the purpose of a common ostentation
+Neatness that brings despair
+Noble uselessness
+Openly depraved by shows of wealth
+People have never had ideals, but only moods and fashions
+People of wealth and fashion always dissemble their joy
+Plagiarism carries inevitable detection with it
+Refused to see us as we see ourselves
+So many millionaires and so many tramps
+Superiority one likes to feel towards the rich and great
+Take our pleasures ungraciously
+The old and ugly are fastidious as to the looks of others
+They are so many and I am so few
+Those who work too much and those who rest too much
+Unfailing American kindness
+Visitors of the more inquisitive sex
+We cannot all be hard-working donkeys
+We who have neither youth nor beauty should always expect it
+Whatever choice you make, you are pretty sure to regret it
+
+
+
+
+
+NOTES OF A VANISHED SUMMER
+[WH#27][whvan10.txt]3380
+
+Not all the houses are small; some are spacious and ambitious to be of
+ugly modern patterns.
+
+We are still far from the falling leaf; we are hardly come to the
+blushing or fading leaf.  Here and there an impassioned maple confesses
+the autumn.
+
+The street takes care of itself; the seafaring housekeeping of New
+England is not of the insatiable Dutch type which will not spare the
+stones of the highway; but within the houses are of almost terrifying
+cleanliness.
+
+Jim was, and still is, and I hope will long be, a cat; but unless one has
+lived at Kittery Point, and realized, from observation and experience,
+what a leading part cats may play in society, one cannot feel the full
+import of this fact.  Not only has every house in Kittery its cat, but
+every house seems to have its half-dozen cats, large, little, old, and
+young; of divers colors, tending mostly to a dark tortoise-shell.
+
+The day's work on land and sea is then over, and the village leisure,
+perched upon fences and stayed against house walls, is of a
+picturesqueness which we should prize if we saw it abroad, and which I am
+not willing to slight on our own ground.
+
+The lounging native walk is not the heavy plod taught by the furrow, but
+has the lurch and the sway of the deck in it.
+
+
+
+
+
+STANDARD HOUSEHOLD EFFECT CO.
+[WH#28][whshe10.txt]3381
+
+As soon as she has got a thing she wants, she begins to hate it.
+
+I have been thinking this matter over very seriously, and I believe
+it is going from bad to worse.  I have heard praises of the thorough
+housekeeping of our grandmothers, but the housekeeping of their
+granddaughters is a thousand times more intense.
+
+At several times in our own lives we have accumulated stuff enough to
+furnish two or three house and have paid a pretty stiff house-rent in the
+form of storage for the overflow.
+
+Yes, I see what you mean," I said.  This is what one usually says when
+one does not quite know what another is driving at; but in this case I
+really did know, or thought I did.
+
+
+
+
+AMERICAN LITERARY CENTERS
+[WH#29][whalc10.txt]3382
+
+One of the facts which we Americans have a difficulty in making clear to
+a rather inattentive world outside is that, while we have apparently a
+literature of our own, we have no literary centre.  We have so much
+literature that from time to time it seems even to us we must have a
+literary centre.  We say to ourselves, with a good deal of logic, Where
+there is so much smoke there must be some fire, or at least a fireplace.
+
+It is not quality that is wanting, but perhaps it is the quantity of the
+quality; there is leaven, but not for so large a lump.  It may be that
+New York is going to be our literary centre, as London is the literary
+centre of England, by gathering into itself all our writing talent, but
+it has by no means done this yet.
+
+Preach the blessings of our deeply incorporated civilization by the
+mouths of our eight-inch guns.
+
+
+
+
+
+SPANISH PRISONERS OF WAR
+[WH#30][whspw10.txt]3383
+
+If we had a grief with the Spanish government, and if it was so mortal we
+must do murder for it, we might have sent a joint committee of the House
+and Senate, and, with the improved means of assassination which modern
+science has put at our command, killed off the Spanish cabinet, and even
+the queen--mother and the little king.  This would have been consequent,
+logical, and in a sort reasonable; but to butcher and capture a lot of
+wretched Spanish peasants and fishermen, hapless conscripts to whom
+personally and nationally we were as so many men in the moon, was that
+melancholy and humiliating necessity of war which makes it homicide in
+which there is not even the saving grace of hate, or the excuse of hot
+blood.
+
+That stupid and atrocious hate towards the public enemy which abominable
+newspapers and politicians had tried to breed in the popular mind.
+
+How is it the great pieces of good luck fall to us?
+
+
+
+
+
+ANOMALIES OF THE SHORT STORY
+[WH#31][whass10.txt]3384
+
+One of the most amusing questions concerning the short story is why a
+form which is singly so attractive that every one likes to read a short
+story when he finds it alone is collectively so repellent as it is said
+to be.  Before now I have imagined the case to be somewhat the same as
+that of a number of pleasant people who are most acceptable as separate
+householders, but who lose caste and cease to be desirable acquaintances
+when gathered into a boarding-house.
+
+I wish that the general reader, with whom the fault lies, could be made
+to say why, if he likes one short story by itself and four short stories
+in a magazine, he does not like, or will not have, a dozen short stories
+in a book.  This was the baffling question which I began with and which I
+find myself forced to end with, after all the light I have thrown upon
+the subject.
+
+
+
+
+
+LAST DAYS IN A DUTCH HOTEL
+[WH#32][whldh10.txt]3385
+
+But in Europe everything is permanent, and in America everything is
+provisional.  This is the great distinction which, if always kept in
+mind, will save a great deal of idle astonishment.  It is in nothing more
+apparent than in the preparation here at Scheveningen for centuries of
+summer visitors, while at our Long Island hotel there was a losing bet on
+a scant generation of them.  When it seemed likely that it might be a
+winning bet the sand was planked there in front of the hotel to the sea
+with spruce boards.  It was very handsomely planked, but it was never
+afterwards touched, apparently, for any manner of repairs.  Here, for
+half a mile the dune on which the hotel stands is shored up with massive
+masonry, and bricked for carriages, and tiled for foot-passengers; and it
+is all kept as clean as if wheel or foot had never passed over it.  I am
+sure that there is not a broken brick or a broken tile in the whole
+length or breadth of it.  But the hotel here is not a bet; it is a
+business.  It has come to stay; and on Long Island it had come to see how
+it would like it.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE YOUNG CONTRIBUTOR
+[WH#33][whtyc10.txt]3386
+
+An artistic atmosphere does not create artists a literary atmosphere does
+not create literators; poets and painters spring up where there was never
+a verse made or a picture seen.
+
+We hear much of drudgery, but any sort of work that is slighted becomes
+drudgery; poetry, fiction, painting, sculpture, acting, architecture, if
+you do not do your best by them, turn to drudgery sore as digging
+ditches, hewing wood, or drawing water; and these, by the same blessings
+of God, become arts if they are done with conscience and the sense of
+beauty.
+
+At once put aside all anxiety about style; that is a thing that will take
+care of itself; it will be added unto him if he really has something to
+say; for style is only a man's way of saying a thing.
+
+If I were to sin my sins over again, I think I should sin a little more
+on the side of candid severity.  I am sure I should do more good in that
+way, and I am sure that when I used to dissemble my real mind I did harm
+to those whose feelings I wished to spare.
+
+The trouble with success is that it is apt to leave life behind, or
+apart.  The successful writer especially is in danger of becoming
+isolated from the realities that nurtured in him the strength to win
+success.
+
+I think that every author who is honest with himself must own that his
+work would be twice as good if it were done twice.
+
+
+
+
+
+CONFESSIONS OF SUMMER COLONIST
+[WH#34][whcsc10.txt]3387
+
+At this function, which is our chief social event, it is 'de rigueur' for
+the men not to dress, and they come in any sort of sack or jacket or
+cutaway, letting the ladies make up the pomps which they forego.
+
+They say frankly that the summer folks have no idea how pleasant it is
+when they are gone.
+
+Well, we calculate to do our work," he added, with an accent which
+sufficiently implied that their consciences needed no bossing in the
+performance.
+
+
+
+
+
+MAN OF LETTERS IN BUSINESS
+[WH#35][whmlb10.txt]3388
+
+Artist has seasons, as trees,  when he cannot blossom
+Book that they are content to know at second hand
+Business to take advantage of his necessity
+Competition has deformed human nature
+Conditions of hucksters imposed upon poets
+Fate of a book is in the hands of the women
+God of chance leads them into temptation and adversity
+Historian, who is a kind of inferior realist
+I do not think any man ought to live by an art
+If he has not enjoyed writing no one will enjoy reading
+Impropriety if not indecency promises literary success
+Literature beautiful only through the intelligence
+Literature has no objective value
+Literature is Business as well as Art
+Man is strange to himself as long as he lives
+Men read the newspapers, but our women read the books
+Most journalists would have been literary men if they could
+Never quite sure of life unless I find literature in it
+No rose blooms right along
+Our huckstering civilization
+Public whose taste is so crude that they cannot enjoy the best
+Rogues in every walk of life
+There is small love of pure literature
+Two branches of the novelist's trade: Novelist and Historian
+Work not truly priced in money cannot be truly paid in money
+
+
+
+
+LITERATURE AND LIFE
+[WH#36][whlal10.txt]3389
+
+Impropriety if not indecency promises literary success.
+
+Literature is beautiful only through the intelligence.
+
+Public whose taste is so crude that they cannot enjoy the best.
+
+They say frankly that the summer folks have no idea how pleasant it is
+when they are gone.
+
+The trouble with success is that it is apt to leave life behind, or
+apart.  The successful writer especially is in danger of becoming
+isolated from the realities that nurtured in him the strength to win
+success.
+
+I think that every author who is honest with himself must own that his
+work would be twice as good if it were done twice.
+
+At once put aside all anxiety about style; that is a thing that will take
+care of itself; it will be added unto him if he really has something to
+say; for style is only a man's way of saying a thing.
+
+If I were to sin my sins over again, I think I should sin a little more
+on the side of candid severity.  I am sure I should do more good in that
+way, and I am sure that when I used to dissemble my real mind I did harm
+to those whose feelings I wished to spare.
+
+
+
+
+
+MY MARK TWAIN
+[WH#37][whmmt10.txt]3390
+
+Absolutely, so positively, so almost aggressively truthful
+Amiable perception, and yet with a sort of remote absence
+But now I remember that he gets twenty dollars a month
+Christianity had done nothing to improve morals and conditions
+Church: "Oh yes, I go!  It 'most kills me, but I go"
+Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature
+Despair broke in laughter
+Despised the avoidance of repetitions out of fear of tautology
+Everlasting rock of human credulity and folly
+Flowers with which we garland our despair in that pitiless hour
+He was a youth to the end of his days
+Heroic lies
+His coming almost killed her, but it was worth it
+Honest men are few when it comes to themselves
+It was mighty pretty, as Pepys would say
+Left him to do what the cat might
+Lie, of course, and did to save others from grief or harm
+Liked to find out good things and great things for himself
+Livy Clemens: the loveliest person I have ever seen
+Marriages are what the parties to them alone really know
+Mind and soul were with those who do the hard work of the world
+Most desouthernized Southerner I ever knew
+Most serious, the most humane, the most conscientious of men
+Nearly nothing as chaos could be
+Never saw a dead man whom he did not envy
+Never saw a man more regardful of negroes
+No man ever yet told the truth about himself
+No man more perfectly sensed and more entirely abhorred slavery
+Not possible for Clemens to write like anybody else
+Ought not to call coarse without calling one's self prudish
+Polite learning hesitated his praise
+Praised it enough to satisfy the author
+Reparation due from every white to every black man
+Shackles of belief worn so long
+Stupidly truthful
+The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it
+Used to ingratitude from those he helped
+Vacuous vulgarity
+Walter-Scotticized, pseudo-chivalry of the Southern ideal
+We have never ended before, and we do not see how we can end
+Livy: Well, if you are to be lost, I want to be lost with you
+What he had done he owned to, good, bad, or indifferent
+Whether every human motive was not selfish
+"Wonder why we hate the past so?--"It's so damned humiliating!"
+
+
+
+
+
+A BELATED GUEST
+[WH#38][whabg10.txt]3391
+
+Always sumptuously providing out of his destitution
+Could only by chance be caught in earnest about anything
+Couldn't fire your revolver without bringing down a two volumer
+Death's vague conjectures to the broken expectations of life
+Dollars were of so much farther flight than now
+Enjoying whatever was amusing in the disadvantage to himself
+Express the appreciation of another's fit word
+Gay laugh comes across the abysm of the years
+His plays were too bad for the stage, or else too good for it
+Insatiable English fancy for the wild America no longer there
+Long breath was not his; he could not write a novel
+Mellow cordial of a voice that was like no other
+Now death has come to join its vague conjectures
+Offers mortifyingly mean, and others insultingly vague
+Only one concerned who was quite unconcerned
+So refined, after the gigantic coarseness of California
+Wrote them first and last in the spirit of Dickens
+
+
+
+
+
+CAMBRIDGE NEIGHBORS
+[WH#39][whcbn10.txt]3392
+
+Cold-slaw
+Collective opacity
+Felt that this was my misfortune more than my fault
+Found life was not all poetry
+He had no time to make money
+Intellectual poseurs
+NYC, a city where money counts for more and goes for less
+One could be openly poor in Cambridge without open shame
+Put your finger on the present moment and enjoy it
+Standards were their own, and they were satisfied with them
+Wonderful to me how it should remain so unintelligible
+
+
+
+
+
+STUDIES OF LOWELL
+[WH#40][whlow10.txt]3393
+
+What I have cloudily before me is the vision of a very lofty and simple
+soul, perplexed, and as it were surprised and even dismayed at the
+complexity of the effects from motives so single in it, but escaping
+always to a clear expression of what was noblest and loveliest in itself
+at the supreme moments, in the divine exigencies.  I believe neither in
+heroes nor in saints; but I believe in great and good men, for I have
+known them, and among such men Lowell was of the richest nature I have
+known.
+
+Writing at the distance of Europe, and with America in the perspective
+which the alien environment clouded, he spoke of her as "The Land of
+Broken Promise."  It was a splendid reproach, but perhaps too dramatic to
+bear the full test of analysis, and yet it had the truth in it, and
+might, I think, have usefully stood, to the end of making people think.
+Undoubtedly it expressed his sense of the case, and in the same measure
+it would now express that of many who love their country most among us.
+It is well to hold one's country to her promises, and if there are any
+who think she is forgetting them it is their duty to say so, even to the
+point of bitter accusation.
+
+As I have suggested in my own case, it did not matter much whether you
+brought anything to the feast or not.  If he liked you he liked being
+with you, not for what he got, but for what he gave.  He was fond of one
+man whom I recall as the most silent man I ever met.  I never heard him
+say anything, not even a dull thing, but Lowell delighted in him, and
+would have you believe that he was full of quaint humor.
+
+
+
+
+
+THE WHITE MR. LONGFELLOW
+[WH#41][whlng10.txt]3394
+
+In Cambridge the houses to be let were few, and such as there were fell
+either below our pride or rose above our purse.  I wish I might tell how
+at last we bought a house; we had no money, but we were rich in friends,
+who are still alive to shrink from the story of their constant faith in a
+financial future which we sometimes doubted, and who backed their
+credulity with their credit.  It is sufficient for the present record,
+which professes to be strictly literary, to notify the fact that on the
+first day of May, 1866, we went out to Cambridge and began to live in a
+house which we owned in fee if not in deed, and which was none the less
+valuable for being covered with mortgages.  Physically, it was a
+carpenter's box, of a sort which is readily imagined by the Anglo-
+American genius for ugliness.
+
+Any sort of diversion was hailed, and once Appleton proposed that
+Longfellow should show us his wine-cellar.  He took up the candle burning
+on the table for the cigars, and led the way into the basement of the
+beautiful old Colonial mansion, doubly memorable as Washington's
+headquarters while he was in Cambridge, and as the home of Longfellow for
+so many years.  The taper cast just the right gleams on the darkness,
+bringing into relief the massive piers of brick, and the solid walls of
+stone, which gave the cellar the effect of a casemate in some fortress,
+and leaving the corners and distances to a romantic gloom.  This basement
+was a work of the days when men built more heavily if not more
+substantially than now.
+
+The ill-will that seemed nearly always to go with adverse criticism made
+him distrust criticism, and the discomfort which mistaken or blundering
+praise gives probably made him shy of all criticism.
+
+The memory will not be ruled as to what it shall bind and what it shall
+loose.
+
+Somewhat shy of his fellow-men, as the scholar seems always to be.
+
+
+
+
+
+OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
+[WH#42][whowh10.txt]3395
+
+Appeal, which he had come to recognize as invasive
+Could make us feel that our faults were other people's
+Hard of hearing on one side.  But it isn't deafness!
+Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Autocrat clashed upon homeopathy
+He was not bored because he would not be
+He was not constructive; he was essentially observant
+His readers trusted and loved him
+Men's lives ended where they began, in the keeping of women
+Not a man who cared to transcend; he liked bounds
+Not much patience with the unmanly craving for sympathy
+Old man's disposition to speak of his infirmities
+Old man's tendency to revert to the past
+Reformers, who are so often tedious and ridiculous
+Secret of the man who is universally interesting
+Sought the things that he could agree with you upon
+Spare his years the fatigue of recalling your identity
+Study in a corner by the porch
+Those who have sorrowed deepest will understand this best
+Times when a man's city was a man's country
+Work gives the impression of an uncommon continuity
+
+
+
+
+
+LITERARY BOSTON
+[WH#43][whbos10.txt]3396
+
+Dawn upon him through a cloud of other half remembered faces
+Ethical sense, not the aesthetical sense
+Few men last over from one reform to another
+Generous lover of all that was excellent in literature
+Got out of it all the fun there was in it
+Greeting of great impersonal cordiality
+Grieving that there could be such ire in heavenly minds
+His remembrance absolutely ceased with an event
+Looked as if Destiny had sat upon it
+Man who may any moment be out of work is industrially a slave
+Pathos of revolt from the colorless rigidities
+Plain-speaking or Rude Speaking
+Pointed the moral in all they did
+Sometimes they sacrificed the song to the sermon
+Tired themselves out in trying to catch up with him
+True to an ideal of life rather than to life itself
+Wasted face, and his gay eyes had the death-look
+When to be an agnostic was to be almost an outcast
+
+
+
+
+
+ROUNDABOUT TO BOSTON
+[WH#44][whrtb10.txt]3397
+
+I could only report to him from time to time the unyielding attitude of
+the Civil Tribunal, and at last he consented, as he wrote, "to act
+officiously, not officially, in the matter," and the hapless claimant got
+what was left of his estate.
+
+I was notified that there was a sum to my credit in the bank, I said,
+with the confidence I have nearly always felt when wrong, that I had no
+money there.  The proof of my error was sent me in a check.
+
+It is one of the hard conditions of this state that while we can mostly
+make out to let people taste the last drop of bitterness and ill-will
+that is in us, our love and gratitude are only semi-articulate at the
+best, and usually altogether tongue-tied.
+
+His honesty made all men trust him when they doubted his opinions; his
+good sense made them doubt their own opinions, when they had as little
+question of their own honesty.
+
+His whole life taught the lesson that the world is well lost whenever the
+world is wrong; but never, I think, did any life teach this so sweetly,
+so winningly.  The wrong world itself might have been entreated by him to
+be right, for he was one of the few reformers who have not in some
+measure mixed their love of man with hate of men; his quarrel was with
+error, and not with the persons who were in it.
+
+He was a believer in the cause of women's rights, which has no
+picturesqueness, and which chiefly appeals to the sense of humor in the
+men who never dreamt of laughing at him.
+
+
+
+
+
+FIRST VISIT TO NEW ENGLAND
+[WH#45][whvne10.txt]3398
+
+Abstract, the air-drawn, afflicted me like physical discomforts
+Became gratefully strange
+Best talkers are willing that you should talk if you like
+Could easily believe now that it was some one else who saw it
+Death of the joy that ought to come from work
+Did not feel the effect I would so willingly have experienced
+Dinner was at the old-fashioned Boston hour of two
+Either to deny the substance of things unseen, or to affirm it
+Espoused the theory of Bacon's authorship of Shakespeare
+Feigned the gratitude which I could see that he expected
+Forbearance of a wise man content to bide his time
+Hate of hate, The scorn of scorn, The love of love
+Hollowness, the hopelessness, the unworthiness of  life
+I did not know, and I hated to ask
+If he was half as bad, he would have been too bad to be
+In the South there was nothing but a mistaken social ideal
+Incredible in their insipidity
+Industrial slavery
+Love of freedom and the hope of justice
+Man who had so much of the boy in him
+Met with kindness, if not honor
+Napoleonic height which spiritually overtops the Alps
+Never paid in anything but hopes of paying
+Not quite himself till he had made you aware of his quality
+Odious hilarity, without meaning and without remission
+Praised extravagantly, and in the wrong place
+Seen through the wrong end of the telescope
+Things common to all, however peculiar in each
+Wit that tries its teeth upon everything
+
+
+
+
+
+Of Literature--Entire
+[WH#46][whlfr10.txt]3399
+
+Authorities
+Browbeat wholesome common-sense into the self-distrust
+Comfort from the thought that most things cannot be helped
+Concerning popularity as a test of merit in a book
+Critical vanity and self-righteousness
+Critics are in no sense the legislators of literature
+Dickens rescued Christmas from Puritan distrust
+Fact that it is hash many times warmed over reassures them
+Forbear the excesses of analysis
+Glance of the common eye, is and always was the best light
+Greatest classics are sometimes not at all great
+Imitators of one another than of nature
+Languages, while they live, are perpetually changing
+Let fiction cease to lie about life
+Long-puerilized fancy will bear an endless repetition
+Made them talk as seldom man and never woman talked
+No greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth
+Novels hurt because they are not true
+Plain industry and plodding perseverance are despised
+Pseudo-realists
+Public wish to be amused rather than edified
+Teach what they do not know
+Tediously analytical
+To break new ground
+Unless we prefer a luxury of grief
+Vulgarity: bad art to lug it in
+What makes a better fashion change for a worse
+Whatever is established is sacred with those who do not think
+
+
+
+
+
+RAGGED LADY, V1
+[WH#51][wh1rl10.txt]3405
+
+All in all to each other
+Chained to the restless pursuit of an ideal not his own
+Composed her features and her ideas to receive her visitor
+Hopeful apathy in his face
+Inexhaustible flow of statement, conjecture and misgiving
+Kept her talking vacuities when her heart was full
+Led a life of public seclusion
+Luxury of helplessness
+New England necessity of blaming some one
+No object in life except to deprive it of all object
+Provisional reprehension of possible shiftlessness
+Seldom talked, but there came times when he would'nt even listen
+Tone was a snuffle expressive of deep-seated affliction
+Under a fire of conjecture and asseveration
+Wishes of a mistress who did not know what she wanted
+
+
+
+
+
+RAGGED LADY, V2
+[WH#52][wh2rl10.txt]3406
+
+Didn't reason about their beliefs, but only argued
+Dull, cold self-absorption
+Gift of waiting for things to happen
+He's so resting
+Life alone is credible to the young
+Morbid egotism
+Motives lie nearer the surface than most people commonly pretend
+Real artistocracy is above social prejudice
+Singleness of a nature that was all pose
+Submitted, as people always do with the trials of others
+Sunny gayety of self-forgetfulness
+Understood when I've said something that doesn't mean anything
+We change whether we ought, or not
+When she's really sick, she's better
+Women don't seem to belong very much to themselves
+You can't go back to anything
+You were not afraid, and you were not bold; you were just right
+
+
+
+
+
+APRIL HOPES
+[WH#50][whapr10.txt]3404
+
+Adroitness in flattery is not necessary for its successful use
+Amiably satirical
+Beginning to grow old with touching courage
+Buzz of activities and pretences
+Effort to do and say exactly the truth, and to find it out
+Habit of saying some friendly lying thing
+Incoherencies of people meeting after a long time
+Little knot of conscience between her pretty eyebrows
+Lived a thousand little lies every day
+Mind of a man is the court of final appeal for the wisest women
+Outer integument of pretence
+Passive elegance which only ancestral uselessness can give
+Satirical smile with which men witness the effusion of women
+She liked to get all she could out of her emotions
+Worldlier than the world
+You marry a man's future as well as his past
+
+
+
+
+
+ENTIRE PG EDITION OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
+[WH#47][whewk10.txt]3400
+
+Absolutely, so positively, so almost aggressively truthful
+Abstract, the airdrawn, afflicted me like physical discomforts
+Account of one's reading is an account of one's life
+Adroitness in flattery is not necessary for its successful use
+Affections will not be bidden
+Aim at nothing higher than the amusement of your readers
+Air of looking down on the highest
+All in all to each other
+Always sumptuously providing out of his destitution
+Amiable perception, and yet with a sort of remote absence
+Amiably satirical
+Any man's country could get on without him
+Appeal, which he had come to recognize as invasive
+Artist has seasons, as trees,  when he cannot blossom
+Authorities
+Authors I must call my masters
+Became gratefully strange
+Beginning to grow old with touching courage
+Begun to fight with want from their cradles
+Best talkers are willing that you should talk if you like
+Boldest man is commonly a little behind a timid woman
+Book that they are content to know at second hand
+Browbeat wholesome common-sense into the self-distrust
+Business to take advantage of his necessity
+But now I remember that he gets twenty dollars a month
+Buzz of activities and pretences
+Capriciousness of memory: what it will hold and what lose
+Chained to the restless pursuit of an ideal not his own
+Christianity had done nothing to improve morals and conditions
+Church: "Oh yes, I go!  It 'most kills me, but I go"
+Clemens was sole, incomparable, the Lincoln of our literature
+Cold-slaw
+Collective opacity
+Comfort from the thought that most things cannot be helped
+Competition has deformed human nature
+Composed her features and her ideas to receive her visitor
+Concerning popularity as a test of merit in a book
+Conditions of hucksters imposed upon poets
+Contemptible he found our pseudo-equality
+Could only by chance be caught in earnest about anything
+Could make us feel that our faults were other people's
+Could not, as the saying is, find a stone to throw at a dog
+Could easily believe now that it was some one else who saw it
+Couldn't fire your revolver without bringing down a two volumer
+Crimson which stained the tops and steeps of snow
+Crimson torch of a maple, kindled before its time
+Critical vanity and self-righteousness
+Criticism still remains behind all the other literary arts
+Critics are in no sense the legislators of literature
+Dawn upon him through a cloud of other half remembered faces
+Death of the joy that ought to come from work
+Death's vague conjectures to the broken expectations of life
+Despair broke in laughter
+Despised the avoidance of repetitions out of fear of tautology
+Dickens rescued Christmas from Puritan distrust
+Dickens is purely democratic
+Did not feel the effect I would so willingly have experienced
+Didn't reason about their beliefs, but only argued
+Dinner was at the old-fashioned Boston hour of two
+Disbeliever in punishments of all sorts
+Disposition to use his friends
+Do not want to know about such squalid lives
+Dollars were of so much farther flight than now
+Dull, cold self-absorption
+Early self-helpfulness of children is very remarkable
+Effort to do and say exactly the truth, and to find it out
+Either to deny the substance of things unseen, or to affirm it
+Encounter of old friends after the lapse of years
+Enjoying whatever was amusing in the disadvantage to himself
+Errors of a weak man, which were usually the basest
+Escaped at night and got into the boy's dreams
+Espoused the theory of Bacon's authorship of Shakespeare
+Ethical sense, not the aesthetical sense
+Even a day's rest is more than most people can bear
+Everlasting rock of human credulity and folly
+Exchanging inaudible banalities
+Express the appreciation of another's fit word
+Eyes fixed steadfastly upon the future
+Fact that it is hash many times warmed over that reassures them
+Fate of a book is in the hands of the women
+Fear of asking too much and the folly of asking too little
+Feigned the gratitude which I could see that he expected
+Felt that this was my misfortune more than my fault
+Few men last over from one reform to another
+Fictions subtle effect for good and for evil on the young
+Flowers with which we garland our despair in that pitiless hour
+For most people choice is a curse
+Forbear the excesses of analysis
+Forbearance of a wise man content to bide his time
+Found life was not all poetry
+Gay laugh comes across the abysm of the years
+General worsening of things, familiar after middle life
+Generous lover of all that was excellent in literature
+Gift of waiting for things to happen
+Glance of the common eye, is and always was the best light
+God of chance leads them into temptation and adversity
+Got out of it all the fun there was in it
+Government is best which governs least
+Greatest classics are sometimes not at all great
+Greeting of great impersonal cordiality
+Grieving that there could be such ire in heavenly minds
+Habit of saying some friendly lying thing
+Happy in the indifference which ignorance breeds in us
+Hard to think up anything new
+Hard of hearing on one side.  But it isn't deafness!
+Hardly any sort of bloodshed which I would not pardon
+Harriet Beecher Stowe and the Autocrat clashed upon homeopathy
+Hate of hate, The scorn of scorn, The love of love
+He was a youth to the end of his days
+He was not bored because he would not be
+He had no time to make money
+He was not constructive; he was essentially observant
+He might walk home with her if he would not seem to do so
+He's so resting
+He's the same kind of a man that he was a boy
+Heart of youth aching for their stoical sorrows
+Heighten our suffering by anticipation
+Heroic lies
+His readers trusted and loved him
+His plays were too bad for the stage, or else too good for it
+His coming almost killed her, but it was worth it
+His remembrance absolutely ceased with an event
+Historian, who is a kind of inferior realist
+Holiday literature
+Hollow hilarities which people use to mask their indifference
+Hollowness, the hopelessness, the unworthiness of  life
+Honest men are few when it comes to themselves
+Honesty is difficult
+Hopeful apathy in his face
+Hospitable gift of making you at home with him
+I do not think any man ought to live by an art
+I did not know, and I hated to ask
+If one were poor, one ought to be deserving
+If he was half as bad, he would have been too bad to be
+If one must, it ought to be champagne
+If he has not enjoyed writing no one will enjoy reading
+Imitators of one another than of nature
+Impropriety if not indecency promises literary success
+In the South there was nothing but a mistaken social ideal
+In school there was as little literature then as there is now
+Incoherencies of people meeting after a long time
+Incredible in their insipidity
+Industrial slavery
+Inexhaustible flow of statement, conjecture and misgiving
+Inexperience takes this effect (literary lewdness) for reality
+Insatiable English fancy for the wild America no longer there
+Insensate pride that mothers have in their children's faults
+Intellectual poseurs
+Intent upon some point in the future
+It was mighty pretty, as Pepys would say
+Joyful shame of children who have escaped punishment
+Kept her talking vacuities when her heart was full
+Kindness and gentleness are never out of fashion
+Kissing goes by favor, in literature as in life
+Languages, while they live, are perpetually changing
+Led a life of public seclusion
+Left him to do what the cat might
+Let fiction cease to lie about life
+Lewd literature seems to give a sanction to lewdness in the life
+Lie, of course, and did to save others from grief or harm
+Life alone is credible to the young
+Liked to find out good things and great things for himself
+Literature beautiful only through the intelligence
+Literature is Business as well as Art
+Literature has no objective value
+Little knot of conscience between her pretty eyebrows
+Lived a thousand little lies every day
+Livy: Well, if you are to be lost, I want to be lost with you
+Livy Clemens: the loveliest person I have ever seen
+Long-puerilized fancy will bear an endless repetition
+Long breath was not his; he could not write a novel
+Look of challenge, of interrogation, almost of reproof
+Looked as if Destiny had sat upon it
+Love of freedom and the hope of justice
+Luxury of helplessness
+Made many of my acquaintances very tired of my favorite authors
+Made them talk as seldom man and never woman talked
+Malevolent agitators
+Man is strange to himself as long as he lives
+Man who had so much of the boy in him
+Man who may any moment be out of work is industrially a slave
+Marriages are what the parties to them alone really know
+Married Man: after the first start-off he don't try
+Meet here to the purpose of a common ostentation
+Mellow cordial of a voice that was like no other
+Men read the newspapers, but our women read the books
+Men's lives ended where they began, in the keeping of women
+Met with kindness, if not honor
+Mind and soul were with those who do the hard work of the world
+Mind of a man is the court of final appeal for the wisest women
+Morbid egotism
+Most desouthernized Southerner I ever knew
+Most journalists would have been literary men if they could
+Most serious, the most humane, the most conscientious of men
+Motives lie nearer the surface than most people commonly pretend
+Mustache, which in those days devoted a man to wickedness
+My own youth now seems to me rather more alien
+My reading gave me no standing among the boys
+Napoleonic height which spiritually overtops the Alps
+Nearly nothing as chaos could be
+Neatness that brings despair
+Never saw a man more regardful of negroes
+Never paid in anything but hopes of paying
+Never quite sure of life unless I find literature in it
+Never appeals to the principle which sniffs, in his reader
+Never saw a dead man whom he did not envy
+New England necessity of blaming some one
+No greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth
+No man more perfectly sensed and more entirely abhorred slavery
+No man ever yet told the truth about himself
+No rose blooms right along
+No two men see the same star
+No greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth
+No object in life except to deprive it of all object
+Noble uselessness
+None of the passions are reasoned
+Not quite himself till he had made you aware of his quality
+Not possible for Clemens to write like anybody else
+Not much patience with the unmanly craving for sympathy
+Not a man who cared to transcend; he liked bounds
+Nothing in the way of sport, as people commonly understand it
+Novels hurt because they are not true
+Now little notion what it was about, but I love its memory
+Now death has come to join its vague conjectures
+NYC, a city where money counts for more and goes for less
+Odious hilarity, without meaning and without remission
+Offers mortifyingly mean, and others insultingly vague
+Old man's disposition to speak of his infirmities
+Old man's tendency to revert to the past
+One could be openly poor in Cambridge without open shame
+Only one concerned who was quite unconcerned
+Openly depraved by shows of wealth
+Ought not to call coarse without calling one's self prudish
+Our huckstering civilization
+Outer integument of pretence
+Passive elegance which only ancestral uselessness can give
+Pathetic hopefulness
+Pathos of revolt from the colorless rigidities
+People whom we think unequal to their good fortune
+People of wealth and fashion always dissemble their joy
+People have never had ideals, but only moods and fashions
+Picture which, he said to himself, no one would believe in
+Plagiarism carries inevitable detection with it
+Plain-speaking or Rude Speaking
+Plain industry and plodding perseverance are despised
+Pointed the moral in all they did
+Polite learning hesitated his praise
+Praised it enough to satisfy the author
+Praised extravagantly, and in the wrong place
+Prejudice against certain words that I cannot overcome
+Provisional reprehension of possible shiftlessness
+Pseudo-realists
+Public wish to be amused rather than edified
+Public whose taste is so crude that they cannot enjoy the best
+Put your finger on the present moment and enjoy it
+Quiet but rather dull look of people slightly deaf
+Rapture of the new convert could not last
+Real artistocracy is above social prejudice
+Reformers, who are so often tedious and ridiculous
+Refused to see us as we see ourselves
+Reparation due from every white to every black man
+Responsibility of finding him all we have been told he is
+Rogues in every walk of life
+Satirical smile with which men witness the effusion of women
+Secret of the man who is universally interesting
+Secretly admires the splendors he affects to despise
+Seen through the wrong end of the telescope
+Seldom talked, but there came times when he would'nt even listen
+Self-satisfied, intolerant, and hypocritical provinciality
+Shackles of belief worn so long
+She liked to get all she could out of her emotions
+Should probably have wasted the time if I had not read them
+Singleness of a nature that was all pose
+So long as we have social inequality we shall have snobs
+So refined, after the gigantic coarseness of California
+So many millionaires and so many tramps
+Society interested in a woman's past, not her future
+Sometimes they sacrificed the song to the sermon
+Somewhat shy of his fellow-men, as the scholar seems always to be.
+Somewhat too studied grace
+Sought the things that he could agree with you upon
+Spare his years the fatigue of recalling your identity
+Speaks it is not with words and blood, but with words and ink
+Spit some hapless victim: make him suffer and the reader laugh
+Standards were their own, and they were satisfied with them
+Study in a corner by the porch
+Stupefied by a life of unalloyed prosperity and propriety
+Stupidly truthful
+Style is the man, and he cannot hide himself in any garb
+Submitted, as people always do with the trials of others
+Sunny gayety of self-forgetfulness
+Superiority one likes to feel towards the rich and great
+Take our pleasures ungraciously
+Teach what they do not know
+Tediously analytical
+The old and ugly are fastidious as to the looks of others
+The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it
+The great trouble is for the man to be honest with her
+There is small love of pure literature
+They are so many and I am so few
+Things common to all, however peculiar in each
+Those who work too much and those who rest too much
+Those who have sorrowed deepest will understand this best
+Times when a man's city was a man's country
+Tired themselves out in trying to catch up with him
+To break new ground
+To be exemplary is as dangerous as to be complimentary
+Tone was a snuffle expressive of deep-seated affliction
+Trace no discrepancy between reading his plays and seeing them
+Tried to like whatever they bade me like
+True to an ideal of life rather than to life itself
+Truth is beyond invention
+Two branches of the novelist's trade: Novelist and Historian
+Under a fire of conjecture and asseveration
+Understood when I've said something that doesn't mean anything
+Unfailing American kindness
+Unless we prefer a luxury of grief
+Used to ingratitude from those he helped
+Vacuous vulgarity
+Visitors of the more inquisitive sex
+Vulgarity: bad art to lug it in
+Walter-Scotticized, pseudo-chivalry of the Southern ideal
+Want something hard, don't you know; but I want it to be easy
+Wasted face, and his gay eyes had the death-look
+We have never ended before, and we do not see how we can end
+We change whether we ought, or not
+We see nothing whole, neither life nor art
+We who have neither youth nor beauty should always expect it
+We cannot all be hard-working donkeys
+We did not know that we were poor
+We're company enough for ourselves
+What I had not I could hope for without unreason
+What he had done he owned to, good, bad, or indifferent
+What makes a better fashion change for a worse
+What we thought ruin, but what was really release
+Whatever is established is sacred with those who do not think
+Whatever choice you make, you are pretty sure to regret it
+When to be an agnostic was to be almost an outcast
+When she's really sick, she's better
+When was love ever reasoned?
+Whether every human motive was not selfish
+Wide leisure of a country village
+Wishes of a mistress who did not know what she wanted
+Wit that tries its teeth upon everything
+With all her insight, to have very little artistic sense
+Women don't seem to belong very much to themselves
+Women talked their follies and men acted theirs
+Wonder why we hate the past so?--"It's so damned humiliating!"
+Wonderful to me how it should remain so unintelligible
+Words of learned length and thundering sound
+Work gives the impression of an uncommon continuity
+Work not truly priced in money cannot be truly paid in money
+World made up of two kinds of people
+World seems to always come out at the same hole it went in at!
+World's memory is equally bad for failure and success
+Worldlier than the world
+Worst came it was not half so bad as what had gone before
+Wrote them first and last in the spirit of Dickens
+You can't go back to anything
+You cannot be at perfect ease with a friend who does not joke
+You may do a great deal(of work), and not get on
+You marry a man's future as well as his past
+You were not afraid, and you were not bold; you were just right
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