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Laurence Sterne

"Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest."

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"Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest."

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"With prophecies the commentator is often a more important man than the prophet."

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"Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind."

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"How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man."

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"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone."

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"The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company."

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"The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea."

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"So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you."

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"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."

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"Poetry and progress are like two ambitious men who hate one another with an instinctive hatred, and when they meet upon the same road, one of them has to give place."

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"Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness."
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"Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation."
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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!"
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"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."
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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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"Religion which lays so many restraints upon us, is a troublesome companion to those who will lay no restraints upon themselves."
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"I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it."
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"A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one."
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"It is a great pity but tis certain from every day's observation of man, that he may be set on fire like a candle, at either end provided there is a sufficient wick standing out."
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"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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