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I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.

Sydney Smith
Scotland, Switzerland, Looks
Letter to Lord Holland, 1815

[T]he 47th proposition in Euclid might now be voted down with as much ease as any proposition in politics; and therefore if Lord Hawkesbury hates the abstract truths of science as much as he hates concrete truth in human affairs, now is his time for getting rid of the multiplication table, and passing a vote of censure upon the pretensions of the hypotenuse.

Sydney Smith
Hate, Science, Ease
SYDNEY SMITH (1839). “The Works”, p.374

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

Sydney Smith
Life, Math, Culture
Lady Saba Holland Holland, Sydney Smith, Sarah Austin (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.345

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

Sydney Smith
Oil, People, Charity
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed., by John Bartlett, Volume I, (p. 261), 1919.

Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

Sydney Smith
Together, Done, Dean
On a proposal to surround St Paul's with a wooden pavement, in H. Pearson 'The Smith of Smiths' (1934) ch. 10, p. 237

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