Laurence Sterne Quotes
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Chance is the providence of adventurers.
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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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So long as a man rides his hobbyhorse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind…
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To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.
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An English man does not travel to see English men.
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Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.
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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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It is the nature of an hypothesis, when once a man has conceived it, that it assimilates every thing to itself, as proper nourishment; and,…
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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of…
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of…
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I'll not hurt thee, says Uncle Toby, rising with the fly in his hand. Go, he says, opening the window to let it escape. Why…
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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…
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
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A coward never forgives.
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Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.
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Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
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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…
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There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he,…
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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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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded…
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