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Writing is hard work and bad for the health. - E. B. White
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Whatever else an American believes or disbelieves about himself, he is absolutely sure he has a sense of humor. - E. B. White
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When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad. - E. B. White
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19. - E. B. White
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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel. - E. B. White
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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. - E. B. White
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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. - E. B. White
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To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year. - E. B. White
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. - E. B. White
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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. - E. B. White
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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. - E. B. White
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens. - E. B. White
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one. - E. B. White
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar. - E. B. White
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Be obscure clearly. - E. B. White
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind. - E. B. White
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority. - E. B. White
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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus. - E. B. White
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. - E. B. White
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men. - E. B. White
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#Men
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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. - E. B. White
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it. - E. B. White
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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car. - E. B. White
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