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The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.
— Sydney Smith
Tags: infinite, only, performance, illusion

Other Quotes by "Sydney Smith"

Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
— Sydney Smith
Tags: possible, must, time, you
To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can.
— Sydney Smith
Tags: stand, doing, thinking, world
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
— Sydney Smith
Tags: scotland, sort, inferior, switzerland, look
It resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated, often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
— Sydney Smith
Tags: cannot, who, moving, always
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
— Sydney Smith
Tags: who, moving, always, marriage
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