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Rev.d Sydney Smith 19th-century English clergyman and writer (1771–1845) mounted
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From the sellerRev.d Sydney Smith 19th-century English clergyman and writer. He is best known as one of the greatest wits of his age, he was famous for his humorous and often sarcastic writing style. He once famously described his own handwriting as looking like "a swarm of ants, escaping from an ink-bottle, had walked over a sheet of paper without wiping their legs".
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