Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes

The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the world is going to ruin, that they resent every attempt to comfort them as an insult to their sagacity, and accordingly seek their chief consolation in being inconsolable, their chief pleasure in being displeased.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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• Sagacity
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  • Pleasure
  • Ruin
  • Chief