The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.Laurence Sterne
Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.
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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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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
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First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbors, and where they separate, depend upon it, 'Tis for no other cause but quietness sake.
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I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
Laurence Sterne
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