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Only Quotes by Sydney Smith
- 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…
- The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves…
- 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…
- The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten?…
- If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
- People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of…
- It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
- I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury.
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle