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«So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him -- pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?»
«Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood»
«Titles of honor are like the impressions on coins, which add no value to gold or silver, but only render brass current»
«Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.»
Author: Laurence Sterne (Writer) | Keywords: arrive at, refined
«Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.»
«We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.»
Author: Laurence Sterne (Writer) | Keywords: denying, triples
«Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.»
«The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.»
Author: Laurence Sterne (Writer) | Keywords: beguiled, beguiles
«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»
Author: Laurence Sterne (Writer) | About: Family | Keywords: begot
«Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.»
Author: Laurence Sterne (Writer) | Keywords: amusing

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