Elwyn Brooks White
"When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad."
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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."
"Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts."
"Be obscure clearly."
"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."
"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."