All E. B. White Quotes
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Politics
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Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Intelligence
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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