Sydney Smith Quotes & Sayings

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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

Heat, ma'am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.

In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.

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.

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