Sydney Smith - Correspondences are like small clothes before the in

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up.

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Holland, Saba Smith. A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. Vol. 2, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, p. 466.

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