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Offline MysteRy

Re: ~ Sydney Smith Quotes ~
« Reply #15 on: October 14, 2015, 10:47:53 AM »
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him and cannot be reasoned out.
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Re: ~ Sydney Smith Quotes ~
« Reply #16 on: October 14, 2015, 10:48:42 AM »
He has returned from Italy a greater bore than ever; he bores on architecture painting statuary and music.
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Re: ~ Sydney Smith Quotes ~
« Reply #17 on: October 14, 2015, 10:49:25 AM »
Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.
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« Reply #18 on: October 14, 2015, 10:50:21 AM »
Heat madam! It was so dreadful that I found there was nothing for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
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« Reply #19 on: October 14, 2015, 10:50:57 AM »
Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.
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« Reply #20 on: October 14, 2015, 10:51:50 AM »
Oh don't tell me of facts - I never believe in facts; you know Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts except figures.
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« Reply #21 on: October 14, 2015, 10:53:04 AM »
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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Re: ~ Sydney Smith Quotes ~
« Reply #22 on: October 14, 2015, 10:55:47 AM »
Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats; the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight; the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
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Re: ~ Sydney Smith Quotes ~
« Reply #23 on: October 14, 2015, 10:58:35 AM »
Men whose trade is rat-catching love to catch rats; the bug destroyer seizes on his bug with delight; and the suppressor is gratified by finding his vice.
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Re: ~ Sydney Smith Quotes ~
« Reply #24 on: October 14, 2015, 11:00:10 AM »
It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects.
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Re: ~ Sydney Smith Quotes ~
« Reply #25 on: October 14, 2015, 11:01:14 AM »
To do anything in this world worth doing we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
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« Reply #26 on: October 14, 2015, 11:01:55 AM »
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.
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Re: ~ Sydney Smith Quotes ~
« Reply #27 on: October 14, 2015, 11:02:47 AM »
Whatever you are by nature keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
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