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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

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

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

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

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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

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

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

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Quotes of the Hour

I was quite ready to accept certain restrictions on the United States. After all, there was a great dollar shortage. It was quite clear that the more prosperous Europe became, the more business there would be in the United States.
W. Averell Harriman
My dad died, I think, at 87. So I'll be lucky if I make 87. But in a lot of cases, the younger people live longer than their parents. And they know more. My dad used to tell me he ate the hog from his rooter to his tooter. So do I when I'm not trying to lose weight.
B. B King
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief – call it what you will – than any book ever written. It has emptied more churches than all the counter-attractions of cinema, motor-bicycle and golf course.
Alan Alexander Milne
Don't be afraid. There is no right answer in fashion.
G-Dragon
Out of all the guitars in the whole world, the Fender Mustang is my favorite. They're cheap and totally inefficient, and they sound like crap and are very small.
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