Edwin Percy Whipple Quotes About Sagacity

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  • 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 (1871). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.199
  • Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.

    Edwin Percy Whipple (1875). “Success and Its Conditions”, p.284
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