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Scotland: That garret of the ...

Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

we know nothing of tomorrow, ...

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

His enemies might have said b...

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 122 quotes

Lucy, dear child, mind your a...

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

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A great deal of talent is lost...

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 122 quotes

Marriage resembles a pair of s...

Marriage 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.

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What a pity it is that we have...

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

Science is his forte, and omni...

Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

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Great men hallow a whole peopl...

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

When you rise in the morning, ...

When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.

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Politeness is good nature regu...

Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.

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Heat, ma am! It was so dreadfu...

Heat, ma am! 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.

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Resolve to make at least one p...

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

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It is no more necessary that a...

It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the different books which have made him wise. Let us see the results of good food in a strong body, and the results of great reading in a full and powerful mind.

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

His enemies might have said be...

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 122 quotes

What two ideas are more insepa...

What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

A great deal of talent is lost...

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

When I hear any man talk of an...

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

No furniture is so charming as...

No furniture is so charming as books.

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

we know nothing of tomorrow, o...

we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

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