| I often derive a peculiar satisfaction in conversing with the ancient and modern dead, - who yet live and speak excellently in their works. My neighbors think me often alone, - and yet at such times I am in company with more than five hundred mutes - each of whom, at my pleasure, communicates his ideas to me by dumb signs - quite as intelligently as any person living can do by uttering of words. |
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- Laurence Sterne |
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| Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts. |
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- Laurence Sterne |
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| A man cannot dress, but his ideas get cloath'd at the same time. |
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- Laurence Sterne |
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| People who are always taking care of their health are like misers who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy. |
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- Laurence Sterne |
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