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Sydney Smith Inspirational Quotes (37)

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People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination
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Errors, to be dangerous, must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.
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Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.
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What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?
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Avoid shame, but do not seek glory nothing so expensive as glory.
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I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
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Whatever you are by nature, keep to it never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
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Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.
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Find fault, when you must find fault, in private, if possible and some time after the offense, rather than at the time.
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I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
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we know nothing of tomorrow, our business is to be good and happy today
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Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
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Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.
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No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
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Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
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Oh, don't tell me of facts, I never believe facts you know, [George] Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.
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The two women exchanged the type of glance women use when there is no knife handy.
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He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the face of the globe.
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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage.
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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.
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The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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