The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

William Dean Howells
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More Quotes By William Dean Howells
  1. She had conquered, but she had also necessarily lost much. Perhaps what she had lost was not worth keeping; but at any rate she had lost it.

  2. Yes, there's sense in that. But the suddenly rich are on a level with any of us nowadays. Money buys position at once. I don't say that it isn't all right. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>The world generally knows what it's about, and knows how to drive...

  3. 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.

  4. I wish you to believe whatever you think is true, at any and every cost.

  5. 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!

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