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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."
"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."
"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."
"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
Explore more quotes by E. B. White
"Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act, outlining the victim."
"The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it."
"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."
"All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days."
"There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement."
"The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind."
"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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