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Great men hallow a whole people and lift up all who live in their time.
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Magnificent spectacle of human happiness.
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I never read a book before reviewing it: it prejudices a man so.
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Men who prefer any load of infamy, however great, to any pressure of taxation, however light.
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He not only overflowed with learning but stood in the slops.
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It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.
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It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
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That knuckle-end of England--that land of Calvin, oatcakes, and sulphur.
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It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
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Avoid shame, but do not seek glory: nothing so expensive as glory.
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Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God.
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The fox, when caught, is worth nothing: he is followed for the pleasure of following.
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She looked as if she had walked straight out of the ark.
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No furniture so charming as books.
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He] has not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.
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Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
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As the French say, there are three sexes -- men, women, and clergymen.
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Praise is the best diet for us, after all.
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Live always in the best company when you read.
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Sydney Smith |
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He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.
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Let onion atoms lurk within the bowlAnd, scarce suspected, animate the whole.
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Serenely full, the epicure would say,Fate cannot harm me, I have dined today.
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Ah! what you don't know would make a great book.
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We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today.
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I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
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What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?
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