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"People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery."
"Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth."
"There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot."
"He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men."
Explore more quotes by Sydney Smith
"Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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 timidity prevented them from making a first effort."
"Manners are like the shadows of virtues, they are the momentary display of those qualities which our fellow creatures love and respect."
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