"Heat, ma'am!" I said; "it was so dreadful here, that I found there
was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones."
-- Sydney Smith (1769-1845)
-- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 267
was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones."
-- Sydney Smith (1769-1845)
-- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 267
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- Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir... - Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,--nothing so expensive as glory.
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twelve miles from a lemon.
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-- Sydney Smith (1769-1845)
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Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p.... - Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir... - It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch
understanding.
Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir... - Looked as if she had walked straight out of the ark.
Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir... - You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.
Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir... - 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...
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- Baby oil is NOT made by squeezing dead
babies... - You are going to have a new love
affair... - The cheque is not in the mail.
You're never getting the cheque... - If you don't go to other men's funerals they won't go to yours.
Clarence... - Chastise the good child and he will mend,
chastise the bad and he will grow worse...
