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E. B. White

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

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"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."

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"All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!""

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"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

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"The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius."

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"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."

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"I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."

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"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."

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"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."

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"A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter."

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"Pain is as diverse as man. One suffers as one can."

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"The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people."
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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."
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"A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus."
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