Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider’s web?
E. B. WHITEWell,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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A really companionable and indispensable dog is an accident of nature. You can’t get it by breeding for it, and you can’t buy it with money. It just happens along.
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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I’ve never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself – a lad of about 19.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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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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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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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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Good deeds never go unpunished.
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Nationalism has two fatal charms for its devotees: It presupposes local self-sufficiency, which is a pleasant and desirable condition, and it suggests, very subtly, a certain personal superiority by reason of one’s belonging to a place which is definable and familiar, as against a place that is strange, remote.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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