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Solitude cherishes great virtu...

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

Human beings cling to their de...

Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

[T]he 47th proposition in Eucl...

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.

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Lucy, dear child, mind your ar...

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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The longer I live, the more I ...

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

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Oh, don't tell me of facts, I ...

Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

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The two women exchanged the ty...

The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

Take short views, hope for the...

Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

People who love only once in t...

People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

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I always fear that creation wi...

I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.

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A man who wishes to make his w...

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

What would life be without ari...

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

Sydney Smith 122 quotes

Married couples resemble a pai...

Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.

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Correspondences are like small...

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

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Among the smaller duties of li...

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

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Have the courage to be ignoran...

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

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Manners are like the shadows o...

Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.

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To love and be loved is the gr...

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.

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Poverty is no disgrace to a ma...

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

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No man can ever end with being...

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

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