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Quotes from Essays and Reviews — Edwin Percy Whipple

1819–1886 United States

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A Thought embodied and embrained in fit words, walks the earth a living being.

Essays and Reviews (1848)

Nothing is rarer than the use of a word in its exact meaning.

Essays and Reviews (1848)

Sin, every day, takes out a patent for some new invention.

Essays and Reviews (1848)

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

Essays and Reviews (1848)

Felicity, not fluency, of language is a merit.

Essays and Reviews (1848)

The familiar writer is apt to be his own satirist. Out of his own mouth is he judged.

Essays and Reviews (1848)

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