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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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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

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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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