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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

~Laurence Sterne

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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.

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Courtship consists in a number of quiet attentions, not so pointed as to alarm, nor so vague as not to be understood.

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Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

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I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.

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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.

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A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

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But this is neither here nor there why do I mention it? Ask my pen, it governs me, I govern not it.

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God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: November 24th, 1713

Died: March 18th, 1768

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