1,140 Quotes by E. B. White

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    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 and the wounds of the poor.

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    There is about Boston a certain reminiscent and classical tone, suggesting an authenticity and piety which few other American cities possess.

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    The circus comes as close to being the world in microcosm as anything I know. In a way, it puts all the rest of show business in the shade.

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    What do you paint when you paint on a wall? Do you paint just anything at all? Will there be any doves, or a tree in fall? Or a hunting scene, like an English hall?

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    Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men

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