One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
E. B. WHITEGood deeds never go unpunished.
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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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A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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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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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer’s time isn’t worth the paper he is not writing anything on.
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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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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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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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Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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