Irish - Novelist | November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768
An English man does not travel to see English men.
Laurence Sterne
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So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
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Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves.
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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.
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What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!
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