More from Laurence Sterne

  1. A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.
  2. Ho! 'tis the time of salads.
  3. The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blush'd as he gave it in; and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down…
  4. I believe in my conscience I intercept many a thought which heaven intended for another man.
  5. I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world…
  6. When issues of events like these my father is waiting for, are hanging in the scales of fate, the mind has the advantage of changing the pr…
  7. My father was as proud of his eloquence as MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO could be for his life, and and for aught I am convinced of to the contrary…
  8. L-d! said my mother, what is all this story about? - A Cock and a Bull, said Yorick - And one of the best of its kind I ever heard.

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