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Laurence Sterne Quotes

Laurence Sterne

British writer

Nationality: British
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Type: Writer
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Birth: 1713-1768
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Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.
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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
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Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
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Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.
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Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
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People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
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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 no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we
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'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.
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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
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One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
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There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
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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.
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Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.
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When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but their passions, which have got the better of their beliefs. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbours; and when they separate,
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First, 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. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbours, and where they separate, dep
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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
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