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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

In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time. – Sydney Smith

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Tea
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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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Sydney Smith
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Originality is the art of concealing your source. – Franklin P. Jones

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Miscellaneous

A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Miscellaneous

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

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied. РHenri-Fr̩d̩ric Amiel

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Miscellaneous

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I suppose for me as an artist it wasnt always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. – David Bowie

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work

Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined. – Kate Millet

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When a man comes to me for advice, I find out the kind of advice he wants, and I give it to him. – Henry Wheeler Shaw, a.k.a. Josh Billings

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The party in power, like Jonahs gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall. – Davy Crockett

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power