Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.

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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.

E. B. White

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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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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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Arise Between Enjoy
A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.

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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Add Compress Heihhening Mean Much Small
From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.

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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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Comfort Familiar Kitchen Most Till
When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.

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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.

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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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Editor Escape More Write Writer
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Clearly Obscure Way
You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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Dissect Tend
I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.

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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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Feel Less More Optimistic Outwit Spent
When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.

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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Chance Have Make Only Say Something
The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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Establish One Self Whole
A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.

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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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City Computer First New Roughly Take Three
Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.

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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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Bluffer Expression Sailor Weather
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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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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Called Mere Necromancy Poll Talking
Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.

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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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