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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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.

Beyond Child Child People Simply Deep Happy Moderately Happy Today People Sad Today

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

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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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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

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

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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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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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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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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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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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