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"Magnificent spectacle of human happiness."
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Sydney SmithPreaching has become a byword for long and dull conversation of any ki — Sydney Smith
"Preaching has become a byword for long and dull conversation of any kind; and whoever wishes to imply, in any piece of writing, the absence of everything agreeable and inviting, calls it a sermon."
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Sydney Smith
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Sydney Smith was an English writer and Anglican clergyman, mainly famous for his wit. Besides his energetic parochial work, he was known for his writing and philosophy, founding the Edinburgh Review, lecturing at the Royal Institution and his rhyming salad dressing recipe.
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"My idea of heaven is, eating pâté de foie gras to the sound of trumpets."
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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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"It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little."
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"Take short views, hope for the best, and trust in God."
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"The object of preaching is, constantly to remind mankind of what mankind are constantly forgetting; not to supply the defects of human intelligence, but to fortify the feebleness of human resolutions."
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