Hang on to your hat. Hang on to your hope. And wind the clock, for tomorrow is another day.
E. B. WHITEIs there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
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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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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation’s pulse, you can’t be sure that the nation hasn’t just run up a flight of stairs.
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A poet’s pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.
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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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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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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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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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We’re born, we live a little while, we die. A spider’s life can’t help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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