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It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.
Laurence Sterne
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Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
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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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So often has my judgment deceived me in my life, that I always suspect it, right or wrong,--at least I am seldom hot upon cold subjects. For all this, I reverence truth as much as any body andif a man will but take me by the hand, and go quietly and search for itI'll go to the world's end with him:MBut I hate disputes.
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A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
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People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.
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We are born to trouble and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.
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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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There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a word--a look, which at one time would make no impression, at another time wounds the heart, and, like a shaft flying with the wind, pierces deep, which, with its own natural force, would scarce have reached the object aimed at.
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Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.
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The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.
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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
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The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation.
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