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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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

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

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

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

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

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Be obscure clearly.

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The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

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My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

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The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

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I made a few records here and there by default, but I wasn't ever comfortable in that role. I wasn't comfortable on stage. We'll see how it goes this time.

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History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

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