Laurence Sterne - Quoth Quotes

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"Pray, my dear," quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?" — "Good G—!" cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, — "Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question?"

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My brother Toby, quoth she, is going to be married to Mrs Wadman.Then he will never, quoth my father, lie diagonally in his bed again as long as he lives.

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I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma — let him get off as he can.

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Now hang it! quoth I, as I look'd towards the French coast—A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.

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