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Almost one half of our time is spent in telling and hearing evil of one another ... and every hour brings forth something strange and terrible to fill up our discourse and our astonishment.

Laurence Sterne

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Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
Autobiographer
Novelist
Religious
Writer
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Brings
Half
Hearing
Evil
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Hour
Every
Telling
Astonishment
Something
Terrible
Discourse
Time
Strange
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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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There is one sweet lenitive at least for evils, which nature holds out so I took it kindly at her hands, and fell asleep.
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In all unmerciful actions, the worst of men pay this compliment at least to humanity, as to endeavour to wear as much of the appearance of it, as the case will well let 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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I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
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Upon looking back from the end of the last chapter and surveying the texture of what has been wrote, it is necessary, that upon this page and the five following, a good quantity of heterogeneous matter be inserted, to keep up that just balance betwixt wisdom and folly, without which a book would not hold together a single year.
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The histories of the lives and fortunes of men are full of instances of this nature,--where favorable times and lucky accidents have done for them, what wisdom or skill could not.
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A coward never forgives.
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