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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.

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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

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

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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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

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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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