Quote by Sydney Smith
I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. -

I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave. – Sydney Smith

Other quotes by Sydney Smith

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. – Sydney Smith

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Confidence
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In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. – Sydney Smith

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Tea
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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
Country
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When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself Yes indeed, all that belongs to me! – Henri Rousseau

Category:
Country

When I am in the country I wish to vegetate like the country. – William Hazlitt, Table Talk

Category:
Country

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. – Samuel Johnson

Category:
Country

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children. – John Adams

Category:
Country

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Im a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I dont trust diamonds and gold. – Eartha Kitt

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Anger is one of the sinews of the soul. – Thomas Fuller

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