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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.
Category: Brevity Author: Sydney Smith
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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
Category: Carpe Diem Author: Sydney Smith
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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.
Category: Confidence Author: Sydney Smith
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I have no relish for the country; it is a kind of healthy grave.
Category: Country Author: Sydney Smith
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Soup and fish explain half the emotions of human life.
Category: Food Author: Sydney Smith
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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
Category: Helping and Making a Difference Author: Sydney Smith
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Human beings cling to their delicious tyrannies and to their exquisite nonsense, till death stares them in the face.
Category: Humankind Author: Sydney Smith
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If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth.
Category: Music Author: Sydney Smith
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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Category: Poverty Author: Sydney Smith
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Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.
Category: Poverty Author: Sydney Smith
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I always fear that creation will expire before teatime.
Category: Tea Author: Sydney Smith
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