I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty-everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?
E. B. WHITEOne of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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In every queen there’s a touch of floozy.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education – sometimes it’s sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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Make the work interesting and the discipline will take care of itself.
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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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A poem compresses much in a small space and adds music, thus heightening its meaning.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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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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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy.
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Loneliness is a strange gift.
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Before the seed there comes the thought of bloom.
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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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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and to have one hell of a good time. Sometimes, this makes planning the day difficult.
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To achieve style, begin by affecting none.
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