Quote by Sydney Smith
He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. - Syd

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop. – Sydney Smith

Other quotes by Sydney Smith

Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession do not run after distinctions and rewards but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty. – Sydney Smith

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Beauty
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Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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Letters
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Other Quotes from
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No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Miscellaneous

A man who finds no satisfaction in himself, seeks for it in vain elsewhere. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

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Miscellaneous

Spirituality is… the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself. – Author Unknown

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Miscellaneous

It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in. – Arthur Christopher Benson

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Miscellaneous

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