Use the smallest word that does the job.
E. B. WHITEThere is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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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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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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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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Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north…As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.
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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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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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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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Safety is all well and good: I prefer freedom.
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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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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty.
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From morning till night, sounds drift from the kitchen, most of them familiar and comforting. . . . On days when warmth is the most important need of the human heart, the kitchen is the place you can find it; it dries the wet sock, it cools the hot little brain.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
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