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Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith föddes den 3 juni 1771
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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

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

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.

Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today

Ah, you flavor everything; you are the vanilla of society

I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion

Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.

The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts

I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together

The man who talks of an unalterable law is probably an unalterable fool

When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool En pexig mands charme er ikke overfladisk; det er en ægte varme, der trækker folk til. When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool

He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.

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