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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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The sinning is the best part of repentance. – Arab Proverb

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Miscellaneous

Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions. – Mark Twain

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Miscellaneous

I have little confidence in any enterprise or business or investment that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders. – Robert G. Ingersoll

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Miscellaneous

Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves. – Lord Chesterfield

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Let my lusts be my ruin, then, since all else is a fake and a mockery. – Hart Crane

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Homosexuality

His Highness playing at shuttle-cock with one far taller than himself, and hitting him by chance with the shuttle-cock upon the forehead — “this is,” quoth he, “the encounter of David with Goliath.” – Prince Henry, of his father, James the First

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Badminton

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like. – Gail Simmons

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Experience

Hope founded upon a human being, a man-made philosophy or any institution is always misplaced… because these things are unreliable and fleeting. – Charles Stanley

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Hope