I am always humbled by the infite ingenuity of the Lord, who can make a red barn cast a blue shadow.
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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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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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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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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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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It can destroy an individual, or it can fulfill him, depending a good deal on luck.
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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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The city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.
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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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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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