Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
E. B. WHITEA good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
More E. B. White Quotes
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You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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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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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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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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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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It is quite possible that an animal has spoken to me and that I didn’t catch the remark because I wasn’t paying attention.
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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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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The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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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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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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