"No furniture is so charming as books."

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Source : Quoted in Lady Holland, Memoir (1855)

Sydney Smith

#Book Quotes #Furniture Quotes #Charming Quotes

“The lusts and greeds of the body scandalize the Soul; but it has to come to heel.”
“The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have.”
“This sort of dwindling band of true believers each year gets together and talks about the wonderful progress that's been made. None of the rest of us can ever see that.”
“Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism.”
“When you do reality, you have to be pretty careful. You have to almost monitor yourself to make sure that you don't get yourself in situations that you shouldn't.”
“We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier of this epoch... We cannot be indifferent to space, because the grand slow march of our intelligence has brought us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny our history, our capabilities.”
“I would live in a world of Christ-like humans, but not one full of Christians, may God forgive me.”
“What hurts people a lot is taking humiliation.”

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