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Sydney Smith Quotes

«Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | Keywords: pausing
«A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.»
«To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence»
«A wise man struggling with adversity is said by some heathen writer to be a spectacle on which the gods might look down with pleasure»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | Keywords: spectacle
«He deserves to be preached to death by wild curates»
«Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce-suspected, animate the whole.»
Author: Sydney Smith (Clergyman, Essayist, Wit) | Keywords: bowl, lurk, onion, scarce
«What you don't know would make a great book.»
«Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.»

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