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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)Related Subjects
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I pity the men whose natural pleasures are burthens, and who fly from joy ... as if it was really an evil in itself.... Poor unfortunate creature that he is! as if the causes of anguish in the heart were not enow—but he must fill up the measure, with those of caprice; and not only walk in a vain shadow,—but disquiet himself in vain too.
Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), British author, clergyman. Sermons, sermon 22, "The history of Jacob" (1766), ed. Melvyn New, University Press of Florida (1996).
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