Sydney Smith - Book Quotes

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No furniture so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.

Sydney Smith

Macaulay is like a book in breeches... He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.

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In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? Or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue? What does the world yet owe to American physicians or surgeons? What new substances have their chemists discovered? Or what old ones have they advanced? What new constellations have been discovered by the telescopes of Americans? Who drinks out of American glasses? Or eats from American plates? Or wears American coats or gowns? or sleeps in American blankets? Finally, under which of the old tyrannical governments of Europe is every sixth man a slave, whom his fellow-creatures may buy and sell and torture?

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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

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He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.

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What you don't know would make a great book.

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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.

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