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“ Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything. ”

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The main question to a novel is -- did it amuse? were you surprised at dinner coming so soon? did you mistake eleven for ten? were you too late to dress? and did you sit up beyond the usual hour? If a novel produces these effects, it is good; if it does not -- story, language, love, scandal itself cannot save it. It is only meant to please; and it must do that or it does nothing.

~ Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith Craft Enjoyment Novels Pleasure Writing

No furniture is so charming as books.

~ Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith Books Furniture

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

~ Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith Food Friendship Gravy

The fact is that in order to do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand shivering on the bank thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.

~ Sydney Smith

Sydney Smith Action Courage Determination Initiative