Irish - Novelist | November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768
Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Laurence Sterne
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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
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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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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
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Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
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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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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.
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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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'Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause, and of obstinacy in a bad one.
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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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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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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
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