Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
E. B. WHITEIs there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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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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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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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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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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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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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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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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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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