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We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Consume Enemy Great One Thing Time
A right is a responsibility in reverse.
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Responsibility Reverse Right
Use the smallest word that does the job.
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Job Smallest Use Word
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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All Anything Ask Been Deserve Done Friend never You
You’re terrific as far as I am concerned.
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Concerned Far Terrific
Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.
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If a man is to be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most.
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Anything Beter Good Man Most Obsessed Perhaps Something Suppose
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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An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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Childhood Doorway Full Met Mind Open People Since World
No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.
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Attitude Decently Distrustful Intelligence Patronizing Reader Write
In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Every Queen Floozy Touch
Television 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.
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When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This sustains me very well indeed.
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Another Direction Do Get Men Only Sick Spider Step Walk
It is Sunday, mid-morning-Sunday in the living room, Sunday in the kitchen, Sunday in the woodshed, Sunday down the road in the village: I hear the bells, calling me to share God’s grace.
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Kitchen Living Morning Room Sunday Woodshed
I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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