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Letter "S" » Sydney Smith Quotes
«The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes; they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Neighbors
| Keywords:
dearest, housekeeping
«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»
«I never read a book before reviewing it - it prejudices a man so»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Prejudice,
Safety
| Keywords:
book review, reviewing
«An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument»
«Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| Keywords:
encroach, encroached, encroaches, encroaching, give way, steadily
«A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.»
«Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect.»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
Manners
| Keywords:
display, Shadows of, The Shadows
«As the French say, there are three sexes, - men, women, and clergymen»
«It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.»
«Praise is the best diet for us, after all»
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