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Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car.

~E. B. White

Topics: Car Else Everything Get Life Somewhere Somewhere Else You

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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

~E. B. White

Topics: Facts Form Get Great Great Time Having Opinions Prejudice Saver Time Without You

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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

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Topics: Luck Men Mention Presence Self-Made Something You

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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.

~E. B. White

Topics: Farmer Good Handy Less Man More Nor Nothing Sense Than

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer.

~E. B. White

Topics: Along Friend Good Good Writer Often Someone True True Friend Who Writer

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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

~E. B. White

Topics: Act Faith Grammar Trick Writing

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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

~E. B. White

Topics: Chickens Discouraging Know Literature More Which

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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.

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Topics: Even Gives Grapes Joy Laundry Long Long Run Only Picking Run Should Us

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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.

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Topics: Childhood Doorway Full Met Mind Never Open Open Mind People Since Who World

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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

Topics: Able About Age Because Been Image Lad Me Mental Myself Never Old Old Age Problem Shed Special

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 11th, 1899

Died: October 1st, 1985

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