More from Sydney Smith
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little.
Often credited to Edmund Burke- Lady Holland’s Memoir (1855)
In the four quarters of the globe, who reads an American book? Or goes to an American play? or looks at an American picture or statue?
Sydney Smith on clever jabs
Referring to the lack of established culture and the established institution of slavery in the United States, in “Review of Seybert’s Annals of the United States”, The Edinburgh Review (1820), pp. 79-80
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