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Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.

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Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
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Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.
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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
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There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
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My father, whose way was to force every event in nature into an hypothesis, by which means never man crucified TRUTH at the rate he did.
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The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation.
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Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
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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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Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
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We often think ourselves inconsistent creatures, when we are the furthest from it, and all the variety of shapes and contradictory appearances we put on, are in truth but so many different attempts to gratify the same governing appetite.
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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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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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There is no such thing as real happiness in life. The justest definition that was ever given of it was a tranquil acquiescence under an agreeable delusion--I forget where.
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Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?
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If a man has a right to be proud of anything, it is of a good action done as it ought to be, without any base interest lurking at the bottom of it.
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Freethinkers are generally those who never think at all.
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Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.
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What persons are by starts they are by nature.
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Any one may do a casual act of good-nature but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.
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