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Sydney Smith quotes (27) Life is fortified by many friendships Sydney Smith Category: Friendship Avoid shame but do not seek glorynothing so expensive as glory. Sydney Smith Category: Glory Poverty is no disgrace to a man but it is confoundedly inconvenient. Rev. Sydney Smith Category: Potential Whatever you are by nature keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. Sydney Smith Category: Housework Marriage resembles a pair of shears so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions yet always punishing any one who comes between them. Sydney Smith Category: Marriage He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slop. Sydney Smith Category: Insults He deserves to be preached to death by wild curates. Sydney Smith Category: Preach I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. Rev. Sydney Smith Category: Health His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence that make his conversation perfectly delightful. Sydney Smith Category: Conversation Heat maam! I said; it was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. Sydney Smith Category: Weather To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness. Sydney Smith Category: Love As the French say there are three sexesmen women and clergymen. Sydney Smith Category: Sex It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can. Sydney Smith Category: Mistake That knuckle-end of Englandthat land of Calvin oat-cakes and sulphur. Sydney Smith Category: Scorn Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed. Sydney Smith Category: Learn No child is born a criminal: no child is born an angel: hes just born. Sir Sydney Smith Category: Unsorted The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman pouring his medicine which has paid seven per cent into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. Sydney Smith Category: Tax Ah you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society. Sydney Smith Category: Society No one minds what Jeffrey says: . . it is not more than a week ago that I heard him speak disrespectfully of the equator. Sydney Smith Category: Unsorted Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily for the habit will encroach. Rev. Sydney Smith Category: Unsorted I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion. Sydney Smith Category: Confidence Madam I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship. Sydney Smith Category: Food 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 Category: If I never read a book before reviewing it: it prejudices a man so. Sydney Smith Category: Book My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon. Sydney Smith Category: Countryside Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea! Sydney Smith Category: Tea 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 Category: Pen |
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