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Book Quotes by Laurence Sterne
- To write a book is for all the world like humming a song.
- 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…
- That of all the several ways of beginning a book which are now in practice throughout the known world, I am confident my own way…
- I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, — who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My…
- The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
- 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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