A Quote by Edwin Percy Whipple

But the conceit of one's self and the conceit of one's hobby are hardly more prolific of eccentricity than the conceit of one's money. Avarice, the most hateful and wolfish of all the hard, cool, callous dispositions of selfishness, has its own peculiar caprices and crotchets. The ingenuities of its meanness defy all the calculations of reason, and reach the miraculous in subtlety.

Edwin Percy Whipple

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Edwin Percy Whipple
American - Essayist
March 8, 1819 - June 16, 1886

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Franz Grillparzer

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Johnny Unitas

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George Eliot

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Jennifer James

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Myrtle Reed

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