In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to dut…

E. B. White
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In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone. ✨ E. B. White (2011). In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers, p.139, Cornell University Press
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