To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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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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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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The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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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 candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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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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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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The main thing I try to do is write as clearly as I can. I rewrite a good deal to make it clear.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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