“I soon realized I had made no mistake in my choice of a wife. I was helping her pack an overnight bag one afternoon when she said, ‘Put in some tooth twine.’ I knew then that a girl who called dental floss tooth twine was the girl for me. It had been a long search, but it was worth it.”
E. B. White
more infosource: Letters of E. B. White, rev. edition edited by Martha White (New York: Harper Perennial, 2007), 81.
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notes: This recollection is recorded in the notes for Chapter IV, “The Most Beautiful Decisions,” 1929–1930
“They heard and felt the breath of spring, and they stirred with new life and hope. There was a good, new smell in the air, a smell of earth waking after its long sleep.”
E. B. White
more infosource: The Trumpet of the Swan (New York: HarperCollins, 2000), 9.
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“Most people, after one success, are so cringingly afraid of doing less well that they rub all the edge off their subsequent work.”
Beatrix Potter
more infosource: Potter quoted in the biography Beatrix Potter: A Life In Nature by Linda Lear (New York: St. Martin’s Griffen, 2008), 246.
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category: career, fear, success
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“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.”
Louis Brandeis
more infosource: Other People’s Money: and How the Bankers Use It (New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1914), 92.
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category: disease, disinfectant, light, police, publicity, sunlight, transparency
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