Contribution Quote by Sydney Smith

“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.” quote by Sydney Smith — Download Open image

“Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.”

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Scotland: That garret of the earth - that knuckle-end of England - that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulfur.

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My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was eleven miles away from a lemon

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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient

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A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

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How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service."

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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

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Silence is a girl's loudest shout

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A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men…

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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…

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[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury…

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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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