If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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E. B. WhiteE. B. White Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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E. B. WhiteE. B. White You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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