Laurence Sterne

(15 votes)   When a man is discontented with himself, it has one advantage - that it puts him into an excellent frame of mind for making a bargain.

Laurence Sterne
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(12 votes)   Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

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(11 votes)   Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

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(10 votes)   I am persuaded that every time a man smiles - but much more so when he laughs - it adds something to this fragment of life.

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(283 votes)   The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(252 votes)   A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(232 votes)   First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(154 votes)   When ever a person talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not their reason, but their passions, which have got the better of their beliefs. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors; and when they separate, depend on it that it is for the sake of peace and quiet.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(116 votes)   'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(113 votes)   All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(106 votes)   So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him -- pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(71 votes)   We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

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1713-1768, British Author

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(69 votes)   Positiveness is an absurd foible. If you are in the right, it lessens your triumph; if in the wrong, it adds shame to your defeat.

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(59 votes)   There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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(49 votes)   Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading! Take them out of this book, for instance, --you might as well take the book along with them; --one cold external winter would reign in every page of it; restore them to the writer; --he steps forth like a bridegroom, --bids All-hail; brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.

Laurence Sterne
1713-1768, British Author

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