"Pray present my benediction to your charming wife, who I am sure would bring any plant in the garden into full flower by looking at it, and smiling upon it."
— Charm

January 1, 1970

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Sydney Smith, letter to Lord Mahon (July 4, 1843), in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith by his daughter Lady Holland, with a selection of his letters edited by Mrs. Austin (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855), Vol. II, p. 491