A great deal of talent is lost in the world for want of courage.
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All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel at the sight of rich plum-cake or sweetmeats I prefer the driest bread of common life.Sydney Smith
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith
He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
Sydney Smith
The dearest things in the world are our neighbor's eyes they cost everybody more than anything else in housekeeping
Sydney Smith
Deserves to be preached to death by wild curates.
Sydney Smith
Do not assume that because I am frivolous I am shallow I don't assume that because you are grave you are profound.
Sydney Smith
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