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• The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.

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• Every time a value is born, existence takes on a new meaning; every time one dies, some part of that meaning passes away.

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• Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.

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• A book unlike a television program, moving picture or any other “modern means of communication” can wait for years, yet be available at any moment when it happens to be needed.

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• Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

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• The snow itself is lonely or, if you prefer, self-sufficient. There is no other time when the whole world seems composed of one thing and one thing only.

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• If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.

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• Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

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• Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many different ailments, but I have never heard of one who suffered from insomnia.

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• Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.

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• True tragedy may be defined as a dramatic work in which the outward failure of the principal personage is compensated for by the dignity and greatness of his character.

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Joseph Wood Krutch (31)

Birth:	25th November, 1893
Death:	22nd May, 1970
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Critic, Naturalist, Writer

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