Sydney Smith's Quote - Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in or

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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in or

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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What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! – Sydney Smith

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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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Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets. – George S. Patton

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I love revolutionaries who have the courage to stand up against the status quo. Theyre always misunderstood, but theyre the ones who are standing up for human rights. – Richard Hatch

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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another persons habitual misery. – Graham Greene

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Necessity does the work of courage. – Nicholas Murray Butler

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