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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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

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

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

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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

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I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought it was the office cat.

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

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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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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

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