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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

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

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

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

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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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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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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor.

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