Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
Sydney Smithwas an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth3 June 1771
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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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Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.
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The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.
life math culture
What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
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A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.
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A life of knowledge is not often a life of injury and crime
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There is one piece of advice, in a life of study, which I think no one will object to; and that is, every now and then to be completely idle - to do nothing at all.
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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