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Sydney Smith on Anniversary

1771–1845 England

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To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence.

Lady Holland's Memoir (1855)

All great and extraordinary actions come from the heart. There are seasons in human affairs, when qualities fit enough to conduct the common business of life, are feeble and useless; and when men must trust to emotion, for that safety which reason at such times can never give.

Elementary Sketches of Moral Philosophy (1849)

[M]arriage […] resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they can not be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sydney Smith (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.