Quotes by Sydney Smith

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

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Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join...

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Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities...

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Live always in the best company when you read.

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Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

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It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving...

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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do...

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It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to...

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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have...

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I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so.

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

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