Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
E. B. WHITEEverything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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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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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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