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• Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.

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  Irony, Insult, Compliment

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.52

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• Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.

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  Stupid, Common Sense, Prejudice

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.284

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• A composition which dazzles at first sight by gaudy epithets, or brilliant turns or expression, or glittering trains of imagery, may fade gradually from the mind, leaving no enduring impression; but words which flow fresh and warm from a full heart, and which are instinct with the life and breath of human feeling, pass into household memories, and partake of the immortality of the affections from which they spring.

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  Memories, Spring, Heart

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Essays and Reviews”, p.40

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• 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.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Heart, Wine, Men

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• 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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  Two, Erasmus, May

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1871). “Literature and Life”, p.11

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