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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.
Laurence Sterne
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Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
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What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!
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An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
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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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The best hearts are ever the bravest.
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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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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
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How many thousands of [lives] are there every year that comes cast away, (in all civilized countries at least)--and consider'd asnothing but common air, in competition of an hypothesis.
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When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.
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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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The best friends in the world may differ sometimes.
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Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints - without working one - one single miracle with them?
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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
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Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.
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When my way is too rough for my feet, or too steep for my strength, I get off it to some smooth velvet path which fancy has scattered over with rosebuds of delights and, having taken a few turns in it, come back strengthened and refreshed.
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I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.
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Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.
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Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace thee and this is thy divinity which stirs within me...All comes from thee, great-great SENSORIUM of the world!
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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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The world is ashamed of being virtuous.
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Always carry it in thy mind, and act upon it, as a sure maxim: That women are timid: And 'tis well they are--else there would beno dealing with them.
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