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

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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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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. – Sydney Smith

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Courage
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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect. – Sydney Smith

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respect
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Other Quotes from
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Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends. – Bob Garfield

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Letters
[Y]our letter—your dear, warm, true-hearted letter — was put in my hand. I kissed it how many times before breaking its envelope! – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Letters

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. – Walt Whitman

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Letters

But it was your letter within, dear heart, my first love letter, and sweeter to me than the subtlest love-lyric Sappho ever penned in Aeolic gold. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Letters

Random Quotes

My life was changed in one breath from God. – Donna Summer

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Religion

When too many Americans dont vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action. – Paul Wellstone

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Hope

Id think,In a relationship, we should never have his kind of fight. Then, instead of figuring out how to make it work, I looked for a way to get out of it. The truth is, you shouldnt be married if your that kind of person. – George Clooney

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relationship

I like pop music. I consider rock n roll to be a branch of pop music. – Tom Stoppard

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Music