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• The author should gaze at Noah, and ... learn, as they did in the Ark, to crowd a great deal of matter into a very small compass.
  -- Sydney, Smith, Edinburgh Review...
• It would be an entertaining change in human affairs to determine everything by minoritie
  hey are almost always in the right. -- Sydney Smith...
• In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book, or goes to an American play, or looks at an American picture or statue?
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Review of Seybert's Annals of the United States, 1820...
• A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Goethe, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• His religion at best is an anxious wish,--like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• Literary men are... a perpetual priesthood.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- State of German Literature, Edinburgh Review, 1827...
• R. Smith: Chevrolet, Heartbreak of America.