Laurence Sterne Short Quotes

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Sciences may be learned by rote, but Wisdom not.

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Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand.

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They order, said I, this matter better in France.

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Nature is shy, and hates to act before spectators.

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God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.

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For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.

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There is a North-west passage to the intellectual World.

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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

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Nothing is so perfectly amusement as a total change of ideas.

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Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar of science.

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He was in a few hours of giving his enemies the slip for ever.

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Of all duties, prayer certainly is the sweetest and most easy.

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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

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A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time.

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Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.

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He was within a few hours of giving his enemies the slip forever.

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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

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Beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

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There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

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As an Englishman does not travel to see Englishmen, I retired to my room.

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I think there is a fatality in it—I seldom go to the place I set out for.

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Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.

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I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.

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Philosophy has a fine saying for everything.-For Death it has an entire set.

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When the affections so kindly break loose, Joy, is another name for Religion.

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I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!

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There is nothing so awkward as courting a woman whilst she is making sausages.

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Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it.

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It is sweet to feel by what fine spun threads our affections are drawn together.

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Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

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