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I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

Laurence Sterne

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Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
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Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.
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Patience cannot remove, but it can always dignify and alleviate, misfortune.
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A man who values a good night's rest will not lie down with enmity in his heart, if he can help it.
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There is not a greater paradox in nature,--than that so good a religion [as Christianity] should be no better recommended by its professors.
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When a man gives himself up to the government of a ruling passion,--or, in other words, when his HOBBY-HORSE grows head- strong,--farewell cool reason and fair discretion.
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If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body--and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,--then certes the soul does not inhabit there.
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When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
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To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.
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Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?
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There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
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A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
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I never drink. I cannot do it, on equal terms with others. It costs them only one day but me three, the first in sinning, the second in suffering, and the third in repenting.
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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
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In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let them.
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The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.
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Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
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A good simile,--as concise as a king's declaration of love.
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