Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
E. B. WHITEWhy 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.
More E. B. White Quotes
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Books are good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people– people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book.
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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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Children are game for anything. I throw them hard words, and they backhand them over the net. They love words that give them a hard time, provided they are in a context that absorbs their attention.
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Creation is in part merely the business of forgoing the great and small distractions.
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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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No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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Use the smallest word that does the job.
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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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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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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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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