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Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary di

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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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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Carpe Diem
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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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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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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal. – E. M. Forster

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There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors… and that is their competitive sense. – Elia Kazan

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Impiety. Your irreverence toward my deity. – Ambrose Bierce

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