Sydney Smith , was an English writer and clergyman.
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“Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.”
Sydney Smith
“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
“Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.”
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“An ounce of wit is worth a pound of argument”
“It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.”
“Do not assume that because I am frivolous I am shallow; I don't assume that because you are grave you are profound”
“No furniture is so charming as books”
“Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.”
“Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.”
“What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?”