So quickly sometimes has the wheel turned round, that many a man has lived to enjoy the benefit of that charity which his own piety projected.
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Quotes by Laurence Sterne
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Trust that man in nothing, who has not a conscience in every thing.
The best hearts are ever the bravest.
Grant me patience, just Heaven! Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world—though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst—the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
Freethinkers are generally those that never think at all.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
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