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

— Sydney Smith

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What you don't know would make a great book. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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I respectfully suggest the propriety of having stationed at the arsenal a full company of U. S. troops, that they may be made available in any emergency, from fire, insurrection, or any thing else. ↗

— Thomas L. Smith

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In the event of fire in any of the public buildings troops would be of vast service in the protection of public property, and should insurrection break out the protection of life and property would be more safe guarded by our company of regulars, than by the whole City. ↗

— Thomas L. Smith

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I can still memory - taste the fresh buttermilk pancakes and hot buttermilk biscuits - both made with lard! - that were cooked on the top, or in the oven, of that ancient iron stove. ↗

— Vernon L. Smith

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Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so. ↗

— Thomas L. Smith

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No man made great by death offers more hope to lowly pride than does Abraham Lincoln; for while living he was himself so simple as often to be dubbed a fool. ↗

— Thomas Vernor Smith

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Quite casually I wander into my plot, poke around with my characters for a while, then amble off, leaving no moral proved and no reader improved. ↗

— Thorne Smith

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Like life itself my stories have no point and get absolutely nowhere. ↗

— Thorne Smith

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