All Laurence Sterne Quotes
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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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
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There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn from Scripture.
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The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
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I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.
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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
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People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
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Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.
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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
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I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.
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