Sydney Smith Quotes


The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.


Citations

Holland, Saba Smith. A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. Vol. 1, Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, p. 129.

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Sydney Smith
Sydney Smith
  • Born: June 3, 1771
  • Died: February 22, 1845
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Clergyman

Sydney Smith was an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric.