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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

~E. B. White

Topics: Cracked Found Genius More Often Pot Than Whole

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Be obscure clearly.

~E. B. White

Topics: Clearly Obscure

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I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

~E. B. White

Topics: Nothing Promising See Space View Wheel I See

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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

Topics: About Bright Bright Future Feel Future He Her Less Less Time Man More Nature Optimistic Proving Respecting Seniority Spent Sweetness Tasting Time Would

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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

Topics: About Beyond Bury Child Deep Happy Hear Large Looked Makes Moderately Peer People Sad Seas See Seven Simply Them Themselves Tidings Today Waist Were

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Writing is hard work and bad for the health.

~E. B. White

Topics: Bad Hard Hard Work Health Work Writing

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One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.

~E. B. White

Topics: Enemy Most Things Time-Consuming

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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

Topics: Democracy Half More People Right Suspicion Than Time

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The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

~E. B. White

Topics: Critic Curtain Fall Find He Leaves Play Review Saw Scarcely Starting

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The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.

~E. B. White

Topics: Always Been Highly Most People Profit System Trouble

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 11th, 1899

Died: October 1st, 1985

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