Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
E. B. WHITEOld age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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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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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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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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