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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...
• Magnificent spectacle of human happiness.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- America, Edinburgh Review, July, 1824...
• Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 262...
• Man has now conquered almost everything in nature except human nature.
• Serenely full, the epicure would say, Fate cannot harm me,--I have dined to-day.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Recipe for Salad, p. 374...
• You can always get a job in international affairs because 90% of everything happens in a foreign country.
  -- Steve Connelly...
• idiot, n: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
• Idiot: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
• Marriage resmbles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, otfen moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes in between them.
  -- Sydney Smith...