A right is a responsibility in reverse.
E. B. WHITEA 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.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. 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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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
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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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Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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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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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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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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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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