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“Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.”

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E. B. White, a renowned American writer, was born on July 11, 1899, and passed away on October 1, 1985. Known for his concise and elegant writing style, he is the author of classic works such as 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little'. more

“Besides writing, I have been teaching myself to 'develop' my own photographic plates, and I haven't a stick of clothing or an exposed finger that isn't stained. I sit for hours in a dark-room feeling as if I were a very elderly Faust at some dreadful incantation, and come out of it, blinding at the light, like a Bastille prisoner. And yet I am not successful!”

Ifs Writing Has Beens Feelings Light Hours Dark My Own Rooms Successful Teaching Havens Sticks Fingers Prisoner Exposed Clothings Plates Elderly Dark Room Faust Bastille

Author:Bret Harte

“But only that soul can be my friend which I encounter on the line of my own march, that soul to which I do not decline, and which does not decline me, but, native of the same celestial latitude, repeats in its own all my experience.”

Doe Soul Lines My Own My Friends Repeats Encounters Native March Decline Celestial Latitude

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“Mankind have such a deep stake in inward illumination, that there is much to be said by the hermit or monk in defence of his life of thought and prayer.”

Said Prayer Mankind Stakes Inward Monk Defence Illumination Hermits Thoughts And Prayers

Book:Essays and Lectures

Source: Essays and Lectures

“The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.”

Thinking Feels Mind Done Wealth Teach Poet Communication Despise Composition Great Poet

Book:Essays (Annotated Edition)

Source: Essays (Annotated Edition)

“So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.”

Men Said Ideas Self Wise Modern Reader Stoic Essayists

Book:Self-Reliance and Other Essays

Source: Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“The Same, the Same: friend and foe are of one stuff; the ploughman, the plough, and the furrow, are of one stuff; and the stuff is such, and so much, that the variations of form are unimportant.”

Form Stuff Foe Variation Unimportant

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

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