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"Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me."
Laurence Sterne / Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. ii. chap. xii.

Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. ii. chap. xii.

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"Great wits jump."
Laurence Sterne / Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. iii. Chap. ix.

Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. iii. Chap. ix.

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""Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my Uncle Toby, "but nothing to this.""
Laurence Sterne / Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. iii. Chap. xi.

Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. iii. Chap. xi.

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"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!"
Laurence Sterne / Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. iii. Chap. xii.

Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. iii. Chap. xii.

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"The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel as he wrote it down dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever."
Laurence Sterne / Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. vi. Chap. viii.

Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. vi. Chap. viii.

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"I am sick as a horse."
Laurence Sterne / Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. vii. Chap. xi.

Tristram Shandy (orig. ed.). Vol. vii. Chap. xi.

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""They order," said I, "this matter better in France.""
Laurence Sterne / Sentimental Journey. Page 1.

Sentimental Journey. Page 1.

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"I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, "'T is all barren!""
Laurence Sterne / In the Street. Calais.

In the Street. Calais.

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"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."
Laurence Sterne / Maria.

Maria.

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""Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.""
Laurence Sterne / The Passport. The Hotel at Paris.

The Passport. The Hotel at Paris.

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"The sad vicissitude of things."
Laurence Sterne / Sermon xvi.

Sermon xvi.

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"Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything."
Laurence Sterne / Sermon xxvii.

Sermon xxvii.

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