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Sydney Smith

"I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so."

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"I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so."

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"Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away."

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"Men exist for the sake of one another."

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"When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land."

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"A man should be upright, not be kept upright."

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"There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."

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"In order that all men may be taught to speak the truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it."

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"Let no such man be trusted."

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"I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just."

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"When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind."

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"We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members."

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"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."
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"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 of Mr. Hume in 1737."
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"Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them."
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"What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!"
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"In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style."
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"Live always in the best company when you read."
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"To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight."
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"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
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"Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones."
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"It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue."
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