Sydney Smith Quotes
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What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
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What you don't know would make a great book.
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
[Talent]
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When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool.
[Law]
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When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
[Mornings]
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Why destroy present happiness by a distant misery which may never come at all, or you may never live to see it? - Every substantial grief has twenty shadows, and most of them shadows of your own making.
[Grief]
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You may find people ready enough to do the Samaritan without the oil and two-pence.
[Kindness]
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You never say a word of yourself, dear Lady Grey. You have that dreadful sin of anti-egotism.
[Conversation]
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