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There are 17 quotes for the author Laurence Sterne

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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

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

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

Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

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!

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

One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.

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.

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

Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

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

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

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

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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