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Quotes from A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy — Laurence Sterne

1713–1768 Ireland

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The English, like ancient medals, kept more apart, and passing but few people’s hands, preserve the first sharpnesses which the fine hand of Nature has given them;—they are not so pleasant to feel,—but in return the legend is so visible, that at the first look you see whose image and superscription they bear.

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

I think I can see the precise and distinguishing marks of national characters more in these nonsensical minutiæ than in the most important matters of state; where great men of all nations talk and stalk so much alike, that I would not give ninepence to choose amongst them.

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

Dear Sensibility! source inexhausted of all that’s precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows! thou chainest thy martyr down upon his bed of straw—and ’tis thou who lift’st him up to Heaven!—Eternal Fountain of our feelings!

A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Laurence Sterne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.