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E. B. White1899–1985

As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the one thing left to us in a bad time.

E. B. White on hope

Letter to M. Nadeau (30 March 1973)

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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
The New Yorker (3 July 1943); reprinted as “Democracy” in The Wild Flag (1946)
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