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Sydney Smith, or Napoleon or Marcus Aurelius (somebody about that time) said that after ten days any letter would answer itself. You see what he meant.
A. A. Milne
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Writers, like teeth, are divided into incisors and molars. Sydney Smith was a "molar."
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Sydney Smith playfully says that common sense was invented by Socrates, that philosopher having been one of its most conspicuous exemplars in conducting the contest of practical sagacity against stupid prejudice and illusory beliefs.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Sydney Smith
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Born:
June 3, 1771
Died:
February 22, 1845
(aged 73)
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