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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

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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Sydney Smith
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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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Fasting
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Sydney Smith
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Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do. – Victor Hugo

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Miscellaneous

He was a “how” thinker, not an “if” thinker. – Author Unknown

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Miscellaneous

Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Miscellaneous

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. – Oscar Wilde

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Miscellaneous

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. – Francis Bacon

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