How can a bishop marry How can he flirt The most he can say is ''I will see you in the vestry after service.''
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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
Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.
Sydney Smith
Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me I have dined to-day.
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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
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
Sydney Smith
No furniture is as charming as books, even if you never open them.
Sydney Smith
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