A 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.
E. B. WHITEFern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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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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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
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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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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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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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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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