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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

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

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Brevity
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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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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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Other Quotes from
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We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Letters

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

I wonder if Eve could write letters in Paradise! But, poor Eve, she had no one to write to – no one to whom to tell what Eden was, no beloved child to whom her love traveled through any or all space. Poor Eve! – Catharine M. Sedgwick

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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

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Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising. – Thomas B. Macaulay

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Style is the image of character. – Edward Gibbon

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Every mans got to figure to get beat sometime. – Joe Louis

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Sports :: Boxing

Success is always something completely different to people. I feel like Ive succeeded, if Im doing something that makes me happy and Im not lying to anybody. Im not doing that now, so I feel really good about myself. – Kristen Stewart

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Success