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Vanity bids all her sons be brave, and all her daughters chaste and courteous.
Laurence Sterne
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Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
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Is it not an amazing thing, that men shall attempt to investigate the mystery of the redemption, when, at the same time that it is propounded to us as an article of faith solely, we are told that the very angels have desired to pry into it in vain?
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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
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Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.
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That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way of doing it is the bst-- I'm sure it is the most religious-- for I begin with writing the first sentence-- and trusting to Almighty God for the second.
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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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Tis going, I own, like the Knight of the Woeful Countenance, in quest of melancholy adventures--but I know not how it is, but I am never so perfectly conscious of the existence of a soul within me, as when I am entangled in them.
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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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When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.
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...beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.
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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.
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I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.
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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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An atheist is more reclaimable than a papist, as ignorance is sooner cured than superstition.
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