A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
E. B. WHITETelevision 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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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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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Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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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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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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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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Why did you do all this for me?’ he asked. ‘I don’t deserve it. I’ve never done anything for you.’ ‘You have been my friend,’ replied Charlotte. ‘That in itself is a tremendous thing.
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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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Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They’ll believe anything they see in print.
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.
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Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life’s dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive.
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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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