"Lord Chatham and Napoleon were ns much actors as Garrick or Talma. Now, an imposing air should always be taken as evidence of imposition. Dignity is often a veil between us and the real truth of things."

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Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.74

Edwin Percy Whipple

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“Upon death the believer goes immediately into the presence of Christ in heaven, a realm far better than this earth. Heaven is our true home.”
“I hate watching me. I hate watching me. It just makes me feel awful. I think, 'I look stupid from that angle. I wish I didn't let them put that shirt on me.'”
“What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun blast, like blowing a seedy dandelion apart.”
“I was 4 and dictating stories into a tape recorder, and my mom typed them up.”
“If fruit juices or sugar solutions are left to stand in the open air, they show after a few days the processes which are covered by the name of fermentation phenomena.”
“I don't care when people use the term 'one-Slam wonder' with me.”
“I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.”
“Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive smoking?”

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