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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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In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style. – Sydney Smith

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Brevity
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[A] morning-land full of immeasurable hopes encircled him; he stripped his breast, threw himself all aglow into the dripping grass, washed (but not with any higher purpose than girls have) his firm face with liquid June-snow… – Jean Paul Friedrich Richter, Hesperus, or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography,

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Miscellaneous

Understanding a person does not mean condoning; it only means that one does not accuse him as if one were God or a judge placed above him. – Erich Fromm

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Miscellaneous

Every problem contains within itself the seeds of its own solution. – Edward Somers

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Miscellaneous

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire. – Simone Weil

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Miscellaneous

Random Quotes

In the world of poetry there are would-be poets, workshop poets, promising poets, lovesick poets, university poets, and a few real poets. – James Broughton

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Poetry

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. – John Quincy Adams

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Men

When youre not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom. – Larry David

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Freedom

Why not whip the teacher when the pupil misbehaves? – Diogenes of Sinope

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teacher