More from E. B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

  1. When I get sick of what men do, I have only to walk a few steps in another direction to see what spiders do. Or what the weather does. This…
  2. We grow tyrannical fighting tyranny... The most alarming spectacle today is not the spectacle of the atomic bomb in an unfederated world, i…
  3. Americans are willing to go to enormous trouble and expense defending their principles with arms, very little trouble and expense advocatin…
  4. 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 he…
  5. The subtlest change in New York is something people don't speak much about but that is in everyone's mind. The city, for the first time in …
  6. One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
  7. I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped …
  8. If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning…

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