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Let the torpid Monk seek heaven comfortless and alone—GOD speed him! For my own part, I fear, I should never so find the way: let me be wise and religious—but let me be MAN: wherever thy Providence places me, or whatever be the road I take to get to thee—give me some companion in my journey, be it only to remark to, How our shadows lengthen as the sun goes down.

Laurence Sterne

Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), British author, clergyman. Sermons, sermon 18, "The Levite and his concubine" (1766), ed. Melvyn New, University Press of Florida (1996).

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