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Sydney Smith Quotes: Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
         

Heat, ma am! It was so dreadful here that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.


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