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Sydney Smith

"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."

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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 whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort."

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"An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men."

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"Whenever women catfight, men think it's going to turn to sex."

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"I once heard two ladies going on and on about the pains of childbirth and how men don't seem to know what real pain is. I asked if either of them ever got themselves caught in a zipper."

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"One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."

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"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time."

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"I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it."

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"What men are among the other formations of the earth, artists are among men."

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"We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot do."

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"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."
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"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."
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