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Laurence Sterne

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


— Laurence Sterne


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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.


— Laurence Sterne


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Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.


— Laurence Sterne


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An English man does not travel to see English men.


— Laurence Sterne


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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.


— Laurence Sterne


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The publication of Tristram Shandy made Sterne famous in London and on the continent. ISBN 1-4039-3454-1
D. In 1741–42 Sterne wrote political articles supporting the administration of Sir Robert Walpole for a newspaper founded by his uncle but soon withdrew from politics in disgust.

Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and an Anglican clergyman. Sterne died in London after years of fighting consumption.

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