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Elwyn Brooks White

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

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

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

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

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

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

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