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• He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful.
  -- Sydney Smith...
• Macaulay is like a book in breeches.... He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 363...
• Let every man be occupied, and occupied in the highest employment of which his nature is capable, and die with the consciousness that he has done his best.
  -- Sydney Smith (1769-1845) -- Lady Holland's Memoir, Vol. i, p. 130...
• It has come to my attention that nothing I never said has caused me any harm.
  When I am gone, you will be sorry you never heard me say what I don't usually....
• He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty well
  and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again....
• A certain person may have, as you say, a wonderful presence
  I do not know. What I do know is that he has a perfectly delightful absence." -- Idries Shah...
• QOTD: Silence is the only virtue he has left.