Quote by Sydney Smith
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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

Other quotes by Sydney Smith

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. – Sydney Smith

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Fasting
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Marriage 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

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Marriage
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One of the pleasures of reading old letters is the knowledge that they need no answer. – Lord Byron

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Letters

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Letters

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage. – George Washington

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Sir, more than kisses, letters mingle souls; for, thus friends absent speak. – John Donne

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