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• To take Macaulay out of literature and society and put him in the House of Commons, is like taking the chief physician out of London during a pestilence.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 265...
• 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...
• Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 267...
• 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...
• Not body enough to cover his mind decently with; his intellect is improperly exposed.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 258...
• That knuckle-end of England,--that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 17...
• Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 262...
• 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...