Sydney Smith Quote

We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other.


Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849) Lecture 9


We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed...

We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed...

We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed...

We shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed...