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Sydney Smith Quotes

«I have the most perfect confidence in your indiscretion»
«Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.»
«Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.»
«It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.»
«The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts»
«I never could find any man who could think for two minutes together»
«The man who talks of an unalterable law is probably an unalterable fool»
«When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces upon me is to convince me that he is an unalterable fool»
«He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.»
«His enemies might have said before that he talked rather too much; but now he has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.»

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