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Thinking Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- There is no satisfactory explanation of style, no infallible guide to good writing, no assurance that a person who thinks clearly will be able to…
- I am often mad, but I would hate to be nothing but mad: and I think I would lose what little value I may have…
- Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his…
- From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive.
- The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
- A library is many things. It's a place to go, to get in out of the rain. It's a place to go if you want…
- What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Nothing is absolutely the limit of…
- Templeton was down there now, rummaging around. When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had torn from a…
- ... with men it's rush, rush, rush, every minute. I'm glad I'm a sedentary spider." "What does sedentary mean?" asked Wilbur. "Means I sit still…
- Children almost always hang onto things tighter than their parents think they will.
- Most people think of peace as a state of Nothing Bad Happening, or Nothing Much Happening. Yet if peace is to overtake us and make…
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