Whatever you are from nature, keep to it never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing. (Sydney Smith)

Whatever you are from nature, keep to it never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

Sydney Smith

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