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• You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 261...
• Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 130...
• Macaulay is like a book in breeches.... He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 363...
• We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal. -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol.
  i, p. 23...
• Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 262...
• As the French say, there are three sexes,--men, women, and clergymen.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 262...
• Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,--nothing so expensive as glory.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 88...
• It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 53...
• It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 15...