Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
E. B. WHITEGood deeds never go unpunished.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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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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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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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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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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Never hurry and never worry!
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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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.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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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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