“Magnificent spectacle of human happiness.”
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
"America", published in The Edinburgh Review (July 1824)
“Learning
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.”
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