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Sydney Smith

"Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in."

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"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

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"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."

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"No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope."

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"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."

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"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible."

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"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."

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"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."

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"As far as now, as far as I think everyone deserv a chance. No matter who is he and who was he."

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"While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful."

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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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"Poverty us no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient."
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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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"Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship."
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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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"Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty."
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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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