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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

4853 Sydney Smith 1771-1845 John Bartlett

 
NUMBER:4853
AUTHOR:Sydney Smith (1771–1845)
QUOTATION:It requires a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding. 1
ATTRIBUTION:Lady Holland’s Memoir. Vol. i. p. 15.
 
Note 1.
See Walpole, Quotation 4. [back]