No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
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We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal.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
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
Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
Sydney Smith
Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.
Sydney Smith
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