Laurence Sterne Quote

The very essence of gravity was design, and consequently deceit. it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined it,—viz., A mysterious carriage of the body to cover the defects of the mind.


Tristram Shandy, I, 11


The very essence of gravity was design, and consequently deceit. it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined...

The very essence of gravity was design, and consequently deceit. it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined...

The very essence of gravity was design, and consequently deceit. it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined...

The very essence of gravity was design, and consequently deceit. it was no better, but often worse, than what a French wit had long ago defined...