Fern was up at daylight, trying to rid the world of injustice. As a result, she now has a pig. A small one to be sure, but nevertheless a pig. It just shows what can happen if a person gets out of bed promptly.
E. B. WHITEDemocracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
More E. B. White Quotes
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I don’t know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Writing is both mask and unveiling.
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The whole duty of a writer is to please and satisfy himself, and the true writer always plays to an audience of one.
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I have noticed that most men when they enter a barber shop and must wait their turn, drop into a chair and pick up a magazine. I simply sit down and pick up the thread of my sea wanderings, which began more than fifty years ago and is not quite ended.
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. “Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
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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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Habitually creative people are prepared to be lucky.
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I have one share in corporate Earth, and I am nervous about the management.
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When an American family becomes separated from its toothbrushes and combs and pajamas for a few hours it considers that it has had quite an adventure.
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Semi-colons only prove that the author has been to college.
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Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
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The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
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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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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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Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.
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