Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes


Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor.


Citations

Whipple, Edwin Percy. Literature and Life. Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850, p. 89.

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Edwin Percy Whipple
Edwin Percy Whipple
  • Born: March 8, 1819
  • Died: June 16, 1886
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Edwin Percy Whipple was an American essayist and critic.