The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, … - E. B. White

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At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does not contain at least three pupils who can be counted on to oppose the teachers authority and loudly and persistently to question everything he says.

E. B. White

The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything

Consideration, Feeling, Feelings, Kindness, Rodent, Rodents

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People are, if anything, more touchy about being thought silly than they are about being thought unjust.

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Oh, I never look under the hood.

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I’ve got a new friend, all right. But what a gamble friendship is! Charlotte is fierce, brutal, scheming, bloodthirsty—everything I don’t like. How can I learn to like her, even though she is pretty and, of course, clever?

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There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer's time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer's time isn't worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

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I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

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