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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

Avoid Change Common Instinctively Long Long Run Only Run Sense

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

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

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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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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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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.

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

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