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Laurence Sterne
Irish
November 24, 1713
Novelist
An English man does not travel to see English men.
Laurence Sterne
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Men
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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Laurence Sterne
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Change
Nothing
Ideas
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Laurence Sterne
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Get
Life
Your
'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
Laurence Sterne
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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.
Laurence Sterne
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Nor
Understood
Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
Laurence Sterne
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Religion
Who
Will
There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
Laurence Sterne
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Been
World
Which
Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current.
Laurence Sterne
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Only
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.
Laurence Sterne
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More
Than
I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
Laurence Sterne
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Had
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 mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
Laurence Sterne
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