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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.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 53...
• Since poverty is no disgrace, may you never know shame.
• 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...
• My idea of heaven is eating foie gras to the sound of trumpets. -- Sydney Smith
• No furniture is as charming as books, even if you never open them. -- Sydney Smith
• It would be an entertaining change in human affairs to determine everything by minoritie
  hey are almost always in the right. -- Sydney Smith...
• Magnificent spectacle of human happiness.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- America, Edinburgh Review, July, 1824...
• We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal. -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol.
  i, p. 23...