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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

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them. – Sydney Smith

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Marriage
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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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A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal. – William Allen White

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Miscellaneous

Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. – G.B. Shaw, “Maxims for Revolutionists,” 1898

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Miscellaneous

Please be patient. God has not finished with me yet. – Author Unknown

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Miscellaneous

Ruin and recovery are both from within. – Epictetus

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Miscellaneous

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A man who cannot be enticed by money or intimidated by the threat of jail or death has two of the strongest weapons that anyone has to offer. – Jesse Jackson

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No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit. – Andrew Carnegie

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Business

History is the interpretation of the significance that the past has for us. – Johan Huizinga

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