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From 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,…
- 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…
- Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he only who knows how to accommodate himself to their returns, and can wisely…
- I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a…
- What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of…
- It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at…
- There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
- Dear sensibility! Source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! Eternal fountain of our feelings! 'tis here I trace…
- If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;--and if it is true that people…
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