One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E. B. WHITEMost people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make us the gift of serenity and well-being, it will have to be the state of Something Good Happening.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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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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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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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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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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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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Salutations; it’s just my fancy way of saying hello or good morning
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. … A writer has the duty to be good, not lousy: true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.
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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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