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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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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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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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Humankind
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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. – Sydney Smith

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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge. – Patrick Campbell

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Courage is a kind of salvation. – Plato

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How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. – Benjamin Franklin

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Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway. – John Wayne

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I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely happier for it. – Thomas Jefferson

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