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Sydney Smith

"As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen."

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"As the French say, there are three sexes - men, women, and clergymen."

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"Women may fall when there's no strength in men."

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"Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."

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"If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor."

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"There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men."

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"Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties."

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"But men are men; the best sometimes forget."

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"Men find it difficult because I've got so much energy and hardly sleep at night, only four or five hours. I wake up in the early hours and potter around."

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"The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference."

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"Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."

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"Men and women of high professional standing have been reduced to the status of vagrants."

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"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."
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"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 an extensive circulation."
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"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time."
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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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"Heaven never helps the men who will not act."
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"Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient."
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