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Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#fault #find #must #offense #possible

Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#great men #lift #live #men #people

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

— Sydney Smith

#dean #done #heads #lay #their

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right. ↗

— Joseph Sobran

#assume #being #citizens #contented #critics

You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings. ↗

— Yeardley Smith

#create #few #monster #then #whine

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. ↗

— James Smithson

#earth #error #evil #found #greatness

The particle and the planet are subject to the same laws and what is learned of one will be known of the other. ↗

— James Smithson

#laws #learned #other #particle #planet

Artists themselves are not confined, but their output is. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artists #confined #output #their #themselves

Banal words function as a feeble phenomena that fall into their own mental bogs of meaning. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#fall #feeble #function #into #meaning

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits. ↗