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Letter "S" » Sydney Smith Quotes
«Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship»
«Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures»
«That sign of old age, extolling the past at the expense of the present»
«A bigot delights in public ridicule, for he begins to think he is a martyr»
«No furniture is so charming as books»
«Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.»
«The object of preaching is to constantly remind mankind of what they keep forgetting; not to supply the intellect, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| Keywords:
feebleness, fortified, fortifies, fortify, fortifying, preaching, remind, resolutions, supply, The Object of
«Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| Keywords:
Berkeley, bishop, Bishop Berkeley, Hume, octavo
«Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today»
«Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society»
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