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First Quotes by Laurence Sterne
- 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,…
- 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…
- 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 write the first sentence and trust in God for the next.
- Hail! the small courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty, which beget inclinations to love at…
- I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.
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