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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

Dies Few Frog Humor Like People

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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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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 don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

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

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

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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.

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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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Be obscure clearly.

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