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People who drink too much, health, and greedy. Hoard a treasure we do not like.
Laurence Sterne
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Laurence Sterne
Age: 54 †
Born: 1713
Born: November 24
Died: 1768
Died: March 18
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So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,--both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT--as his RESISTANCE.
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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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The most affluent may be stripped of all, and find his worldly comforts, like so many withered leaves, dropping from him.
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Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
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Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?
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When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.
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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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If time, like money, could be laid by while one was not using it, there might be some excuse for the idleness of half of the world, but yet not a full one. For even this would be such an economy as the living on a principal sum, without making it purchase interest.
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Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery, said I, still thou art a bitter draught.
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The way to fame, is like the way to heaven,--through much tribulation.
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Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece--must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?
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Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
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Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?
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Any one may do a casual act of good-nature but a continuation of them shows it a part of the temperament.
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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.
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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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To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or how low you take it.
Laurence Sterne
All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
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I know not whether the remark is to our honour or otherwise, that lessons of wisdom have never such power over us, as when they are wrought into the heart, through the ground-work of a story which engages the passions: Is it that we are like iron, and must first be heated before we can be wrought upon?
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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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