Quote #26

Praise is the best diet for us, after all.

More from Sydney Smith

  1. As the French say, there are three sexes, - men, women, and clergymen.
  2. Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
  3. My living in Yorkshire was so far out of the way, that it was actually twelve miles from a lemon.
  4. Live always in the best company when you read.
  5. Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
  6. Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.
  7. He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again.
  8. He was a one-book man. Some men have only one book in them; others, a library.

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