Laurence Sterne quotes

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Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows!... eternal fountain of our feel ...
Trust me, my dear Eugenius ... "there are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse."
Delicious essence! how refreshing art thou to nature! how strongly are all its powers and all its weaknesses on thy side! how swee ...
They order, said I, this matter better in France--
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
An English man does not travel to see English men.
[I have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persu ...
When the situation is, what we would wish, nothing is so ill- timed as to hint at the circumstances which make it so: you thank Fo ...
I have always observed, when there is as much sour as sweet in a compliment, that an Englishman is eternally at a loss within hims ...
L'amour n'est rien sans sentiment.
Et le sentiment est encore moins sans amour.
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