There are a thousand unnoticed openings, continued my father, which let a penetrating eye at once into a man's soul; and I maintain it, added he, that a man of sense does not lay down his hat in coming into a room, -- or take it up in going out of it, but something escapes, which discovers him.
("The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman")
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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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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
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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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