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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 comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience. – Sydney Smith

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Happiness
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Sydney Smith
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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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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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Other Quotes from
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Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Miscellaneous

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. – Henry David Thoreau

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Miscellaneous

Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember the nice things that happen to us. – W.N. Rieger

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Miscellaneous

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. – Author Unknown

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Miscellaneous

Random Quotes

You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave – win or lose. – Gordie Howe

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Peace

Most bands dont even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years. – Peter Steele

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alone

If you want to improve your understanding, drink coffee. Sir James Mackintosh used to say, he believed the difference between one man and another was produced by the quantity of coffee he drank. – Sydney Smith, quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith: Volume I by his d

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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene — in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. – Susan Sontag

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Cancer