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Sydney Smith Quotes
A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. - Sydney Smith Quotes
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due. - Sydney Smith Quotes
As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. - Sydney Smith Quotes
He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Heaven never helps the men who will not act. - Sydney Smith Quotes
I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury. - Sydney Smith Quotes
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland. - Sydney Smith Quotes
I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so. - Sydney Smith Quotes
In composing, as a general rule, run a pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. - Sydney Smith Quotes
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. - Sydney Smith Quotes
It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue. - Sydney Smith Quotes
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can. - Sydney Smith Quotes
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. - Sydney Smith Quotes
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Learn from the earliest days to insure your principles against the perils of ridicule; you can no more exercise your reason if you live in the constant dread of laughter, than you can enjoy your life if you are in the constant terror of death. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Live always in the best company when you read. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. - Sydney Smith Quotes
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them. - Sydney Smith Quotes
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