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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

Sydney Smith
Life, Friendship, Food
Sydney Smith, lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.307

Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.

Sydney Smith
Life, Children, Mistake
Sydney Smith, Lady Saba (Smith) Holland Holland (1855). “A memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith”, p.345

The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.

Sydney Smith
Life, Food, Science
Sydney Smith (1856). “Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith”, p.278

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

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