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• Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 262...
• As the French say, there are three sexes,--men, women, and clergymen.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 262...
• 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...
• Looked as if she had walked straight out of the ark.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 157...
• Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,--nothing so expensive as glory.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 88...
• We cultivate literature on a little oatmeal. -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol.
  i, p. 23...
• 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...
• 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...
• Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 267...