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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.

Laurence Sterne

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Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
Autobiographer
Novelist
Religious
Writer
Trouble
Shall
Though
Upon
Intermission
Born
Whilst
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World
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