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Quotes by Laurence Sterne

A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
 
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Positiveness is a most absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
 
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Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.

Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
Source: Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. ii. chap. xii.
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The sad vicissitude of things.

Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
Source: Sermon xvi.
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Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
Source: Sermon xxvii.
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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
Source: Maria.
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"Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my Uncle Toby, "but nothing to this."

Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
Source: Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. iii. Chap. xi.
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"Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught."

Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
Source: The Passport. The Hotel at Paris.
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I am sick as a horse.

Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
Source: Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. vii. Chap. xi.
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Whenever a man talks loudly against religion,-always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions which have got the better of his creed.

Laurence Sterne (1713 - 1768)
Source: Tristram Shandy
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