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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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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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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

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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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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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