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Edwin Percy Whipple has 28 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What a lesson, indeed, is all history and all life to the folly and fruitlessness of pride! The Egyptian kings had their…
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In activity we must find our joy as well as glory; and labor, like everything else that is good, is its own…
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by…
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The saddest failures in life are those that come from not putting forth the power and will to succeed.
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
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Tears are copiously showered over frailties the discoverer takes a malicious delight in circulating; and thus, all granite on one side of…
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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,…
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Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but…
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Whenever you find humour, you find pathos close by its side.
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Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents…
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Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their…
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A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.
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Gluttony is wrong. It's wasteful.
— Alton Brown
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Gluttony and idleness are two of life's great joys, but they are not honourable.
— Julie Burchill
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In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision.
— Italo Calvino
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Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It is the just doom of laziness and gluttony to be inactive without ease and drowsy without tranquility.
— Samuel Johnson
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I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most…
— Rich Mullins
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Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony…
— Theodore Parker
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
— Socrates
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Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
— Socrates
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Gluttony and surfeiting are no proper occasions for thanksgiving.
— Charles Lamb
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Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost.
— John Dryden
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Just as animal research tells us that gluttony and sloth are side effects of a drive to accumulate body fat, it also…
— Gary Taubes
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