Sydney Smith Short Quotes

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

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Live always in the best company when you read.

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Science is his forte, and omniscience his foible.

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Looked as if she had walked straight out of the ark.

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

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I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

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Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society.

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What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia?

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Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.

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

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Take short views of human life—not further than dinner or tea.

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

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I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.

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

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Avoid shame, but do not seek glory, — nothing so expensive as glory.

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That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present.

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Great men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time.

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We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.

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Death must be distinguished from dying, with which it is often confused.

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As the French say, there are three sexes, — men, women, and clergymen.

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My idea of heaven is eating pâté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets.

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That knuckle-end of England—that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulphur.

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Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

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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 a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!

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You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

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It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.

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Brighton Pavilion looks as if St Paul's had slipped down to Brighton and pupped.

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

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Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl
And, scarce suspected, animate the whole.

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