There was a strange kind of magick bias, which good or bad names, as he called them, irresistibly impressed upon our characters and conduct.... How many Caesars and Pompeys, he would say, by mere inspiration of the names, have been rendered worthy of them?


Tristram Shandy, I, 19

Laurence Sterne Quotes

There was a strange kind of magick bias, which good or bad names, as he called them, irresistibly impressed upon our characters and conduct.... How...

There was a strange kind of magick bias, which good or bad names, as he called them, irresistibly impressed upon our characters and conduct.... How...

There was a strange kind of magick bias, which good or bad names, as he called them, irresistibly impressed upon our characters and conduct.... How...

There was a strange kind of magick bias, which good or bad names, as he called them, irresistibly impressed upon our characters and conduct.... How...