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• Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught.
  -- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) -- The Passport, The Hotel at Pari...
• I am sick as a horse. -- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) -- Tristram Shandy, Vol. vii, Chap. xi
• I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, "'T is all barren!
  -- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) -- In the Street, Calai...
• God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb. -- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) -- Maria
• The sad vicissitude of things. -- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) -- Sermon xvi
• Go, poor devil, get thee gone! Why should I hurt thee?
  This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me....
• Sentimental, Lieutenant? Efficiency Commander. -- Riker and Worf, "A Matter of Honor", stardate 42506.
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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.
  -- Laurence Sterne...
• Great wits jump. -- Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) -- Tristram Shandy, Vol. iii, Chap. ix