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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.

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A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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Responsibility Reverse Right
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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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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There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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Hurry never Worry
Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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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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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.

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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.

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