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Edwin Percy Whipple Quote: “Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts.”

51. “Some men find happiness in gluttony and in drunkenness, but no delicate viands can touch their taste with the thrill of pleasure, and what generosity there is in wine steadily refuses to impart its glow to their shriveled hearts.”

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Edwin Percy Whipple Quote: “A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.”

52. “A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.”

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Edwin Percy Whipple Quote: “The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.”

53. “The bitterest satires and noblest eulogies on married life have come from poets.”

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Edwin Percy Whipple Quote: “What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.”

54. “What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly, if not viciously; not knowing that it requires as much talent to spend as to make.”

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Edwin Percy Whipple Quote: “A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.”

55. “A nation may be in a tumult to-day for a thought which the timid Erasmus placidly penned in his study more than two centuries ago.”

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Edwin Percy Whipple Quote: “The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness – Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.”

56. “The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness – Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.”

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Edwin Percy Whipple Quote: “A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.”

57. “A true teacher should penetrate to whatever is vital in his pupil, and develop that by the light and heat of his own intelligence.”

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Edwin Percy Whipple Quote: “A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.”

58. “A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.”

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Edwin Percy Whipple Quote: “Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.”

59. “Wit implies hatred or contempt of folly and crime, produces its effects by brisk shocks of surprise, uses the whip of scorpions and the branding-iron, stabs, stings, pinches, tortures, goads, teases, corrodes, undermines.”

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Edwin Percy Whipple Quote: “From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.”

60. “From Lucifer to Jerry Sneak there is not an aspect of evil, imperfection, and littleness which can elude the lights of humor or the lightning of wit.”

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Edwin Percy Whipple Quote: “An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.”

61. “An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.”

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Edwin Percy Whipple Quote: “We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.”

62. “We like the fine extravagance of that philosopher who declared that no man was as rich as all men ought to be.”

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Edwin Percy Whipple Quote: “Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.”

63. “Talent jogs to conclusions to which Genius takes giant leaps.”

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Edwin Percy Whipple Quote: “Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.”

64. “Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but it is not judgment; imagines, but it is not imagination; it feels deeply and fiercely, but it is not passion. It is neither, because it is all.”

— Edwin Percy Whipple

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