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Elwyn Brooks White

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

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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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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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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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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

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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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The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.

I'm gonna tell y'all what we tell the crowd every night when we play back in the States. We tell them to remember people sleeping in a sandstorm so that we can be free.

The first thing I do in the morning is take my vitamins. I don't want to say which vitamins; I don't think you should push what you believe in. Doctors should do that, not fashion designers.

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When I graduated, I promptly took a job in finance, making both my pre-med and poli-sci years essentially useless – or so I thought.

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