Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
E. B. WHITEPeople are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
More E. B. White Quotes
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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