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 Quotes
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
 

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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time - E. B. White Quotes

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It should restate and clarify the social dilemma and the political pickle. Once in a while it does, and you get a quick glimpse of its potential. - E. B. White Quotes

It should restate and clarify the social dilemma and the political pickle. Once in a while it does, and you get a quick glimpse of its potential.

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It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. - E. B. White Quotes

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