Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
E. B. WHITEFern 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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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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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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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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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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I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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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A writer’s style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias…it is the Self escaping into the open.
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