I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
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Deserves to be preached to death by wild curates.Sydney Smith
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
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I am just going to pray for you at St. Paul's, but with no very lively hope of success.
Sydney Smith
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,nothing so expensive as glory.
Sydney Smith
If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes,some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong,and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other.
Sydney Smith
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
Sydney Smith
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