There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E. B. WHITEIf a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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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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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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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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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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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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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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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 right is a responsibility in reverse.
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A despot doesn’t fear eloquent writers preaching freedom- he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
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