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Sydney Smith Quotes
Brief author info: Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English clergyman, wit, essayist.
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No furniture so charming as books.
You never expected justice from a company, did you? They have neither a soul to lose, nor a body to kick.
Let onions lurk within the bowl And, scarce-suspected, animate the whole
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,-nothing so expensive as glory.
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
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.
Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Praise is the best diet for us, after all.
Relationship Quote
A woman we love rarely satisfies all our needs, and we deceive her with a woman whom we do not love.
Age Quote
Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we are born.
Wisdom Quote
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
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