Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
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The schoolboy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings him
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The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
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Praise is the best diet for us, after all
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Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing
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Don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures
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Married couples resemble a pair of scissors, often moving in opposite directions, yet punishing anyone who gets in between them.
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Mankind are always happy for having been happy; so that, if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it
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Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble
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Having heard the bishop I am now convinced of the apostolic succession from Judas Iscariot
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To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
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To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence
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My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon
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Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl, And, scarce-suspected, animate the whole.