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Serenely Full, The Epicure Would Say, Fate Cannot Harm Me,--I Have Dined To-day.
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Serenely full, the epicure would say,
Fate cannot harm me,--I have dined to-day.
-- Sydney Smith (1769-1845)
-- Recipe for Salad, p. 374
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As the French say, there are three sexes,--men, women, and clergymen.
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Daniel Webster struck me much like a steam-engine in trousers.
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The Smiths never had any arms, and have invariably sealed their letters with their thumbs.
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Ah, you flavour everything; you are the vanilla of society.
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Avoid shame, but do not seek glory,--nothing so expensive as glory.
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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.
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It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding.
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