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Elwyn Brooks White Quotes

Elwyn Brooks White

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

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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

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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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