Laurence Sterne

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What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything

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Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners

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Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together

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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation

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I could wish to spy the nakedness of their hearts, and through the different disguises of customs, climates, and religion, find out what is good in them, to fashion my own by. It is for this reason that I have not seen the Palais Royal - nor the facade of the Louvre - nor have attempted to swell the catalogues we have of pictures, statues, and churches - I conceive every fair being as a temple, and would rather enter in, and see the original drawings and loose sketches hung up in it, than the Transfiguration of Raphael itself