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- Tobias Smollett

Opposition is the very spur of love.

- Tobias Smollett

There is not room to swing a cat.

- Tobias Smollett

Glory is the child of peril.

- Tobias Smollett

The capital is become an overgrown monster; which, like a dropsical head, will in time leave the body and extremities without nourishment and support.

- Tobias Smollett

Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age.

- Tobias Smollett

Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions.

- Tobias Smollett

To the valiant actions speak alone.

- Tobias Smollett

Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

- Tobias Smollett