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Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln

Reading is the work of the alert mind, is demanding, and under ideal conditions produces finally a sort of ecstasy. This gives the experience of reading a sublimity and power unequalled by any other form of communication.

- E. B. White | Books and Reading Quotes

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

- E. B. White | The City and the Country Quotes

Summertime, oh, summertime, pattern of life indelible, the fade-proof lake, the woods unshatterable, the pasture with the sweetfern and the juniper forever and ever . . . the cottages with their innocent and tranquil design, their tiny docks with the flagpole and the American flag floating against the white clouds in the blue sky, the little paths over the roots of the trees leading from camp to camp. This was the American family at play, escaping the city heat.

- E. B. White | The City and the Country Quotes

His words leap across rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

- E. B. White | Critics and Criticism Quotes

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

- E. B. White | Democracy Quotes

Humour plays close to the big, hot fire, which is the truth, and the reader feels the heat.

- E. B. White | Humour and Humorists Quotes

Humour can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process.

- E. B. White | Humour and Humorists Quotes

Commuter - One who spends his life in riding to and from his wife; a man who shaves and takes a train, and then rides back to shave again.

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A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

- E. B. White | Poets and Poetry Quotes

I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.

- E. B. White | The Sea Quotes

The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for Nature to follow. Now we just set the clock an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase.

- E. B. White | The Seasons Quotes

If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I rise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savour) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

- E. B. White | Temptation Quotes

There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

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Advice to young writers who want to get ahead without any annoying delays: don't write about Man, write about a man.

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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."

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