Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
E. B. WHITEYou 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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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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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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Most 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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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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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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