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• A form of open-mindedness is the pathway to wisdom.
  Close your mind and you open the way for ignorance to flourish, but you will never even know it....
• Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
  -- E.M. Ciora...
• The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 244...
• Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 262...
• It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little.
  Do what you can. -- Sydney Smith...
• You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 261...
• 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...
• 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....
• My idea of heaven is eating foie gras to the sound of trumpets. -- Sydney Smith