Quote by Sydney Smith
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other

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. – Sydney Smith

Other quotes by Sydney Smith

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

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Confidence
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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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Friendship
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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. – Sydney Smith

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Mistakes
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Other Quotes from
Brevity
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Good things, when short, are twice as good. – Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, translated from Spanish

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Brevity

It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Brevity

Never be so brief as to become obscure. – Tryon Edwards

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Brevity

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there. – Branch Rickey

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Brevity

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Others have done it before me. I can, too. – Corporal John Faunce

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Ability

That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. – Thomas Hobbes

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Peace

Well, you know what? The actor still gets up in the morning, if hes still got something to work with, you go out there and you do it. Never quit! – Robert Forster

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Morning

A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. – Samuel Grafton

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