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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

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

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Friendship
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Sydney Smith
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Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. – Sydney Smith

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Courage
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Sydney Smith
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Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason. – John Wesley

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The minute a phrase becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Miscellaneous

We are wide-eyed in contemplating the possibility that life may exist elsewhere in the universe, but we wear blinders when contemplating the possibilities of life on earth. – Norman Cousins

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Miscellaneous

The private lives of the ancients are now the public sport of the moderns. – Ivor Brown

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Why attack God? He may be as miserable as we are. – Erik Satie

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God

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants. – Barack Obama

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power

I would rather start a family than finish one. – Don Marquis

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Family

Man — a being in search of meaning. – Plato

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Humankind