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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

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. – Sydney Smith

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Letters
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The observances of the church concerning feasts and fasts are tolerably well-kept, since the rich keep the feasts and the poor keep the fasts. – Sydney Smith

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Fasting
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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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Other Quotes from
Miscellaneous
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The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us. – Pierre Elliot Trudeau, Biodynamics

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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

Perhaps this is an age when men think bravely of the human spirit; for surely they have a strange lust to lay it bare. – Christopher Morley

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Miscellaneous

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. – Jonathan Swift, “Thoughts on Various Subjects,” Miscellanies, 1711

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Miscellaneous

Random Quotes

We find things where we look for them, which is why I never look for a golf ball out of bounds. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Attitude

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now thats a real treat. – Joanne Woodward

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Beauty

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. – Lactantius

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Wisdom

A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green. – Michael Frayn

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car