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Elwyn Brooks White

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

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A writer is like a bean plant – he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

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

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

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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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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 trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

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Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms.

I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.

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The United States and Russian security services regularly exchange information.

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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My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

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