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> [A "fraternity" is the antithesis of fraternity. The first... is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-fraternity-is-the-antithesis-of-fraternity-the-first-is-predicated/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

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> [A “fraternity” is the antithesis offraternity. The first (that is, the order or organization) is predicated on the idea of exclusion; the second (that is, the abstract thing) is based on a feeling of total equality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-fraternity-is-the-antithesis-offraternity-the-first-that-is-the/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

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## Other authors on Antithesis

- [Martin Luther King, Jr 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/antithesis/martin-luther-king-jr/)

## More by E. B. White

> [Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/writing-is-an-act-of-faith-not-a-trick-of-grammar/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

> [“To hear, in the short space of one week, a Scottish terrier booed by an audience and President Roosevelt criticized by Charles Lindbergh was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/to-hear-in-the-short-space-of-one-week-a-scottish-terrier-booed-by-an/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

> [The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-sea-answers-all-questions-and-always-in-the-same-way-for-when-you/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

> [New York blends the gift of privacy with the excitement of participation; and better than most dense communities it succeeds in insulating the individual…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/new-york-blends-the-gift-of-privacy-with-the-excitement-of/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

> [The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-terror-of-the-atom-age-is-not-the-violence-of-the-new-power-but/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

> [When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/when-my-wife-s-aunt-caroline-was-in-her-nineties-she-lived-with-us/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

> [Sailors have an expression about the weather: they say the weather is a great bluffer. I guess the same is true of our human…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/sailors-have-an-expression-about-the-weather-they-say-the-weather-is/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

> [Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/anyone-who-writes-down-to-children-is-simply-wasting-his-time-you/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

> [A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/a-writer-should-concern-himself-with-whatever-absorbs-his-fancy-stirs/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

> [Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/every-morning-i-awake-torn-between-a-desire-to-save-the-world-and-an/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

> [I seldom went to bed before two or three o'clock in the morning, on the theory that if anything of interest were to happen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/i-seldom-went-to-bed-before-two-or-three-o-clock-in-the-morning-on/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

> [Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/necessity-first-mothered-invention-now-invention-has-little-ones-of/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

> [The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-bonus-is-really-one-of-the-great-give-aways-in-business/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

> [There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/there-s-no-limit-to-how-complicated-things-can-get-on-account-of-one/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

> [The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white/the-critic-leaves-at-curtain-fall-to-find-in-starting-to-review-it-he/)

[E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white/)

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