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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

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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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Mistakes
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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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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. – Sydney Smith

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Happiness
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There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope. – Joseph Conrad

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Eloquence is vehement simplicity. – Richard Cecil

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Miscellaneous

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881

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Miscellaneous

A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much. – Homer

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Miscellaneous

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You have to stick out the toughness of the business and form relationships with the people in it. – Rocco DiSpirito

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I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesnt have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living. – Christian Bale

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Most people wish to serve God — but only in an advisory capacity. – Author Unknown

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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. – Susan Sontag

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