Writing is both mask and unveiling.
E. B. WHITEThere is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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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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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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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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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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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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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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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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. “Salutations!” said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. “Salu-what?” he cried. “Salutations!” repeated the voice.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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