Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
E. B. WHITEA poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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And then, just as Wilbur was settling down for his morning nap, he heard again the thin voice that had addressed him the night before. “Salutations!” said the voice. Wilbur jumped to his feet. “Salu-what?” he cried. “Salutations!” repeated the voice.
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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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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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Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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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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Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human society – things can look dark, then a break shows in the clouds, and all is changed.
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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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Early summer days are a jubilee time for birds. In the fields, around the house, in the barn, in the woods, in the swamp – everywhere love and songs and nests and eggs.
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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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Oh, I never look under the hood.
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In a man’s middle years there is scarcely a part of the body he would hesitate to turn over to the proper authorities.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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