Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
E. B. WHITEA 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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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There’s no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
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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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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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All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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