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What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice a

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! – Sydney Smith

Other quotes by Sydney Smith

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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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face. – Sydney Smith

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Humankind
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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence. – Sydney Smith

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Happiness
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Other Quotes from
Religion
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Ones own religion is after all a matter between oneself and ones Maker and no one elses. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Religion

Even though you cant expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make that attempt. Thats morality, thats religion. Thats art. Thats life. – Phil Ochs

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Religion

I like the silence of a church, before the service begins better than any preaching. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Religion

Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe. – Elbert Hubbard

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Religion

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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. – P. J. ORourke

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Government

The marvelous rebellion of man at all signs reading “Keep Off.” – Carl Sandburg

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Conformity

The devil had as good have let Paul alone, for he no sooner comes into prison but he falls a preaching, at which the gates of Satans prison fly open, and poor sinners come forth. – William Gurnall

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alone

Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full Taxmageddon scenario, President Obamas health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013. – John Cornyn

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Health