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"The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics."
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Edwin Percy WhippleThere seem to be some persons, the favorites of fortune and darlings o — Edwin Percy Whipple
"There seem to be some persons, the favorites of fortune and darlings of nature, who are born cheerful. ”A star danced” at their birth. It is no superficial visibility, but a bountiful and beneficent soul that sparkles in their eyes and smiles on their lips. Their inborn geniality amounts to genius,—the rare and difficult genius which creates sweet and wholesome character, and radiates cheer."
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Edwin Percy Whipple
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Edwin Percy Whipple was an American essayist and critic.
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"Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit."
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"A Thought embodied and embrained in fit words, walks the earth a living being."
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"Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention."
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"Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning."
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"But man, being, as I have said, essentially an active being, he must find in activity his joy, as well as his duty and glory. And labor, like everything else that is good, is its own exceeding great reward."
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