Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes


Nothing really succeeds which is not based on reality; sham, in a large sense, is never successful. In the life of the individual, as in the more comprehensive life of the State, pretension is nothing and power is everything.


Citations

Whipple, Edwin Percy. Success and Its Conditions. James R. Osgood and Company, 1871, p. 3.

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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.