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Elwyn Brooks White

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

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

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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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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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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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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

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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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