Eric Norris

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My way is ever to point out to the curious, different tracts of investigation, to come at the first springs of the events I tell;—not with a pedantic Fescue,8—or in the decisive Manner of Tacitus,9 who outwits himself and his reader;—but with the officious humility of a heart devoted to the assistance merely of the inquisitive;–to them I write,——and by them I shall be read,——if any such reading as this could be supposed to hold out so long, to the very end of the world.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
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