"But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety."

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Source : Edwin Percy Whipple (1866). “Character and Characteristic Men”, p.47

Edwin Percy Whipple

#Self Quotes #Hobbies Quotes #Peculiar Quotes

“A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect”
“A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.”
“God's creative design was that your ravenous appetite for pleasure find fulfillment in Him, for nothing more wonderfully reveals His glory than the joy the creature has in its Creator.”
“We must practice modesty, not only in our looks, but also in our whole deportment, and particularly in our dress, our walk, our conversation, and all similar actions.”
“I get great joy from creating the perfect Norman Rockwell holiday. This is why I think I might be Martha Stewart's brother from another mother.”

Source : "Turkey Day" by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2011.
“She walks--the lady of my delight-- A sheperdess of sheep. Her flocks are thoughts. She keeps them white; She guards them from the steep. She feeds them on the fragrant height, And folds them in for sleep.”

Source : Alice Meynell, Wilfrid Meynell (1931). “Selected Poems of Alice Meynell”, London, Nonesuch
“It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American argument or parody their political leadership.”
“Sometimes I've sat outside, not to tan, but as a result of that I ended up tanning slightly.”

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