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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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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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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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Television will enormously enlarge the eye’s range, and, like radio, will advertise the Elsewhere. Together with the tabs, the mags, and the movies, it will insist that we forget the primary and the near in favor of the secondary and the remote.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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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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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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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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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Geese are friends to no one, they bad mouth everybody and everything. But they are companionable once you get used to their ingratitude and false accusations.
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.
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