William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
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Quotes by William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
"Ah, we shall never have a real aristocracy while this plebeian reluctance to live upon a parent or a wife continues the animating spirit of our youth. It strikes at the foot of the feudal system!"
"Each one of us must suffer long to himself before he can learn that he is but one in a great community of wretchedness which has been pitilessly repeating itself from the foundation of the world."
"Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!"