"Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?"

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Source : William Dean Howells (2015). “The Complete Travel Books of William Dean Howells: Travel Memoirs & Reports from Traveling Across Europe (Illustrated): Venetian Life, Italian Journeys, Roman Holidays and Others, Suburban Sketches, Familiar Spanish Travels, A Little Swiss Sojourn, London Films & Seven English Cities”, p.63, e-artnow

William Dean Howells

“When you're wondering whether she's his daughter or his girlfriend, she's his girlfriend.”
“Out of the agony and travail of economic America the Committee for Industrial Organization was born.”

Source : Labor and the Nation, delivered 3 September 1937 in Washington D.C.
“Christmas is the celebration of the keeping of a promise. A saving promise.”
“Never confuse looking your best with doing your best.”
“Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.”
“The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.”
“Science is interesting, and if you don't agree, you can fvck off.”
“For the qualities of sheer wit and humor, Swift had no superior, ancient or modern.”

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