Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

Talent is a cistern; genius a fountain.

Books—lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.

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Knowledge, like religion, must be 'experienced' in order to be known.

Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment; insinuating the most galling satire under the phraseology of panegyric.

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