Sydney Smith
- Correspondences are like smallclothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.
(topic: letters)
- Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
(topic: marriage)
- Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.
(topic: praise)
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