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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.

E. B. White

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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Candidate Come Commit During Easily Political Presential Suicide Tour Unconventional
Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
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Cros Erase Life Like Pen Put Writing
Never hurry and never worry!
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Hurry never Worry
I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.
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Ferris Nothing Promising Space View Wheel
Use the smallest word that does the job.
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Job Smallest Use Word
The best writing is rewriting.
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Best Rewriting Write
Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Gift Loneliness Strange
You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
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Die Dissect Frog Joke Tend
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
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Childish Essayist Everything Happen Liberate Self Sustain Think
When you say something, make sure you have said it. The chances of your having said it are only fair.
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Chance Far Have Make Only Say Something Sure
You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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Concerned Far Terrific
There is hardly a waiting room in the east that has not served as my cockpit, whether I was waiting to board a train or to see a dentist. And I am usually still trimming sheets when the train starts or drill begins to whine.
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Begin Cockpit Start Train Trim Usually Wait
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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Called Mere Necromancy Poll Science Talking
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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Around Barn Bird Day Early Everywhere Field House Jubilee Summer Swamp Time Wood
All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.
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All Hope Book Love World
Nauseous. Nauseated. The first means “sickening to contemplate”; the second means “sick at the stomach.” Do not, therefore, say “I feel nauseous,” unless you are sure you have that effect on others.
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Contemplate Country Eman People Person Place Second Sick Stomach

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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