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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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Ye whose clay-cold heads and luke-warm hearts can argue down or mask your passions—tell me, what trespass is it that man should have them?... If nature has so wove her web of kindness, that some threads of love and desire are entangled with the piece—must the whole web be rent in drawing them out?
Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), British author, clergyman. A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (1768), ch. "The Conquest." Ed. Gardner D. Stout, Jr., University of California Press (1967).
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