Sydney Smith (3 June 1771 – 22 February 1845) was an English writer and Anglican cleric.
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Famous quotes by sydney smith:
“I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigour of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendour.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
“That garret of the earth—that knuckle-end of England—that land of Calvin, oat-cakes, and sulphur.”
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845)