I am just going to pray for you at St Paul’s, but with no very lively hope of success.
Sydney Smith Quotes
It is the calling of great men, not so much to preach new truths, as to rescue from oblivion those old truths, which it is our wisdom to remember and our weakness to forget.
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Birth: | 3rd June, 1771 |
Death: | 22nd February, 1845 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Anglican, Writer |
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