Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit. - Edwin Percy Whipple - Quotesmemo.com

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The machines that are first invented to perform any particular movement are always the most complex, and succeeding artists generally discover that, with fewer wheels, with fewer principles of motion, than had originally been employed, the same effects may be more easily produced. The first systems, in the same manner, are always the most complex.

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Edwin Percy Whipple

Felicity, not fluency of language, is a merit.

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As men neither fear nor respect what has been made contemptible, all honor to him who makes oppression laughable as well as detestable. Armies cannot protect it then; and walls which have remained impenetrable to cannon have fallen before a roar of laughter or a hiss of contempt.

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Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.

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God is glorified, not by our groans, but our thanksgivings; and all good thought and good action claim a natural alliance with good cheer.

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A large portion of human beings live not so much in themselves as in what they desire to be. They create what is called an ideal character, in an ideal form, whose perfections compensate in some degree for the imperfections of their own.

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A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being.

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