English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
E. B. WHITE
In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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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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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway?
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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 believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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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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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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