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Quote by Sydney Smith
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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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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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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Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. – David Mamet

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Religion

We need a new religion. – Lauren Hutton

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Religion

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. – Clive Bell

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Religion

All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need. – Harvey Cox

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Religion

Random Quotes

The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. – Elbert Hubbard, The Notebook, 1927

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Friendship

Who knows the difference between education and training? For those of you with daughters, would you rather have them take sex education or sex training? Need I say more? – Dennis Rubin

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Education

No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man. – John Selden

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Learning

Hamlet is an astonishing intelligence. – Ben Kingsley

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Intelligence