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From Quotes by Sydney Smith
- A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose…
- 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…
- Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand…
- Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed;…
- My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon
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