Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
E. B. WHITELoneliness is a strange gift.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have as a writer if I were to refuse, as a matter of principle, to accept the warming rays of the sun, and to report them, whenever, and if ever, they
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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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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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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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“What’s miraculous about a spider’s web?” said Mrs. Arable. “I don’t see why you say a web is a miracle–it’s just a web.” “Ever try to spin one?” asked Mr. Dorian.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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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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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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When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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