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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

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

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Tea
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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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Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation. – Sydney Smith

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Mistakes
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Religion
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. – Immanuel Kant

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Religion

I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings. Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and the angels. – Pearl S. Buck

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Religion

My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Religion

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. Its a painful religion. Were all gluttons for punishment. – Madonna Ciccone

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Religion

Random Quotes

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. – Robert Byrne

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Politics

A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap. – Mitch Hedberg

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funny

On what rests the hope of the republic? One country, one language, one flag! – Alexander Henry

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Hope

The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review and it is not the less so because the Court promises to allow it only when the Constitution is moved to the left. – Robert Bork

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Change