No furniture is so charming as books, even if you never open them or read a single word.

Reverend Sydney Smith


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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Reverend Sydney Smith

Tags: friendship food gravy



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The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

Reverend Sydney Smith

Tags: writing pleasure novels craft enjoyment



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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.

Reverend Sydney Smith

Tags: music



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Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.

Reverend Sydney Smith


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Take short views,
Hope for the best,
and Trust in God.

Reverend Sydney Smith


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The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

Reverend Sydney Smith

Tags: courage determination action initiative



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People who love only once in their lives are shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom, or their lack of imagination

Reverend Sydney Smith

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