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Elwyn Brooks White

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

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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.

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

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

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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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Be obscure clearly.

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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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Stony Skunk, when they were with our company, had a song which I personally like called 'Red Light District.'

The path towards a free society has not been simple. There are tragic and glorious pages in our history.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

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

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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.

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