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“Respect for ourselves guides our morals; respect for others guides our manners”
― Laurence Sterne

“Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.”
― Laurence Sterne

“I begin with writing the first
sentence—and trusting to Almighty
God for the second.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“Digressions incontestably are the sunshine; they are the life, the soul of reading.”
― Laurence Sterne

“Human nature is the same in all professions.”
― Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me. Is that very vain of me? I think that it is rather vain.”
― Oscar Wilde