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A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

Book by Sydney Smith · 15 quotes · Life, Arithmetic, Giving

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“Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.”