E B White Quotes
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself-a lad of about 19
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I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. Never worry about your heart till it stops beating.
- E B White
Another segment of society that has constructed a language of its own is business. ... [The businessman] is speaking a language that is familiar to him and dear to him. Its portentous nouns and verbs invest ordinary events with high adventure; the executive walks among ink erasers caparisoned like a knight. This we should be tolerant of--every man of spirit wants to ride a white horse. ... A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express his precise meaning.
- E B White
