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. WHITEEverything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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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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It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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“What are they, and where are you?” screamed Wilbur. “Please, please, tell me where you are. And what are salutations?” “Salutations are greetings,” said the voice. “When I say ‘salutations,’ it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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