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Ten Quotes by Sydney Smith
- The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten?…
- Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing
- 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;…
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- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
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- I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough. — David Bailey
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