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Edwin Percy Whipple on Books

1819–1886 United States

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Nothing lives in literature but that which has the vitality of creative art; and it would be safe advice to the young to read nothing but what is old.

Success and Its Conditions (1871)

A man of letters is often a man with two natures,—one a book nature, the other a human nature, often clash sadly.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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