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> [I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day. --E. B. White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-3/i-arise-in-the-morning-torn-between-a-desire-to-improve-the-world-and/)

[E B White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-3/)

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## More by E B White

> [“By comparison with other less hectic days, the city is uncomfortable and inconvenient; but New Yorkers temperamentally do not crave comfort and convenience- if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-3/by-comparison-with-other-less-hectic-days-the-city-is-uncomfortable/)

[E B White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-3/)

> [I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-3/i-arise-in-the-morning-torn-between-a-desire-to-improve-the-world-and/)

[E B White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-3/)

> [An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-3/an-intelligence-service-is-in-fact-a-stupidity-service/)

[E B White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-3/)

> [Television should be our Lyceum, our Chautauqua, our Minsky's and our Camelot.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-3/television-should-be-our-lyceum-our-chautauqua-our-minsky-s-and-our/)

[E B White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-3/)

> [The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss-a drafty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-3/the-siren-south-is-well-enough-but-new-york-at-the-beginning-of-march/)

[E B White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-3/)

> [ Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... \[The businessman\] is speaking a language that is familiar… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-b-white-3/another-segment-of-society-that-has-constructed-a-language-of-its-own/)

[E B White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-b-white-3/)

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