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Quotation by Laurence Sterne
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A Sentimental Journey (1768)A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (1768) ed. Gardner D. Stout, Jr., University of California Press (1967)A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (1768) ed. Gardner D. Stout, Jr. University of California Press (1967)"In the Street—Calais" A Sentimental Journey (1768)Maria, in A Sentimental Journey (1768)
Every nation ... have their refinements and grossiertes.... There is a balance ... of good and bad every where; and nothing but the knowing it is so can emancipate one half of the world from the prepossessions which it holds against the other—that [was] the advantage of travel ... it taught us mutual toleration; and mutual toleration ... taught us mutual love.
Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), British author, clergyman. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (1768), ch. "The Rose. Paris." Ed. Gardner D. Stout, Jr., University of California Press (1967).
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