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Laurence Sterne (November 24, 1713 March 18, 1768) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy; but he also published sermons, wrote memoirs, and was involved in local politics. Sterne died in London after years of fighting tuberculosis. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse."

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"So long as a man rides his Hobby-Horse peaceably and quietly along the King's highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him -- pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?"

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"Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at."

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

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"The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it."

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"People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy."

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"For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies."

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"'Tis no extravagant arithmetic to say, that for every ten jokes, thou hast got an hundred enemies; and till thou hast gone on, and raised a swarm of wasps about thine ears, and art half stung to death by them, thou wilt never be convinced it is so."

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"All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark."

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"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."

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