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The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself

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The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself Quotes

“Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.”

“Every thing in this world, said my father, is big with jest,--and has wit in it, and instruction too,--if we can but find it out.”

“Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions--tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece--must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?”