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Elwyn Brooks White

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim.

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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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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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Be obscure clearly.

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

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

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

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The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.

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Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia.

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There's a tendency in American thought – maybe elsewhere, but that's the culture I know best – to default to social Darwinism, even though even Darwin noted that's a misapplication of his ideas.

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