A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
E. B. WHITELoneliness is a strange gift.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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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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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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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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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
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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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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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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 don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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