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Men Quotes by Sydney Smith
- He who drinks a tumbler of London water has literally in his stomach more animated beings than there are men, women, and children on the…
- When I hear any man talk of an unalterable law, the only effect it produces on me is to convince me that he is an…
- 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…
- A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his…
- Heaven never helps the men who will not act.
- Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time.
- As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen.
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