We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
E. B. WHITEThere is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
More E. B. White Quotes
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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
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I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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Never hurry and never worry!
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Life’s meaning has always eluded me and I guess always will. But I love it just the same.
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Mother: It’s broccoli, dear. — Child: I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Wilbur never forgot Charlotte. Although he loved her children and grandchildren dearly, none of the new spiders ever quite took her place in his heart. She was in a class by herself. It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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I am still encouraged to go on. I wouldn’t know where else to go.
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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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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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