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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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

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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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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

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

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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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