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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

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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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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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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

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

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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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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

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I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

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