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One Quotes by Laurence Sterne
- 'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause,-and of obstinacy in a bad one.
- A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.
- One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
- 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…
- When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a…
- Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore…
- Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?
- I have undertaken, you see, to write not only my life, but my opinions also; hoping and expecting that your knowledge of my character, and…
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