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- I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. 
 - E. B. White
 
- 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
 
- People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust. 
 - E. B. White
 
- The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change-and we all instinctively avoid it. 
 - E. B. White
 
- The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. 
 - E. B. White
 
- Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time. 
 - E. B. White, New Yorker, July 3, 1944
 
- Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind. 
 - E. B. White, Some Remarks on Humor, introduction
 
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