Good deeds never go unpunished.
E. B. WHITE
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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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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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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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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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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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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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