An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service

Quote by E B White

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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed...

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed...

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without...

All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without...

The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is...

The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is...

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change...

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change...

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway...

The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway...

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to...

The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to...

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

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

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always...

There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always...

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought...

I can only assume that your editorial writer tripped over the First Amendment and thought...

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer...

English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer...

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than a whole one

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more...

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more...

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

An intelligence service is, in fact, a stupidity service.

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then...

A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then...

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act,...

Commas in The New Yorker fall with the precision of knives in a circus act,...

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel.

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense...

A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense...