Vie et opinions de Tristram Shandy, gentilhomme
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Variante: What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.
“Trust that man in nothing who has not a conscience in everything.”
Book II, Ch. 17.
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“I begin with writing the first
sentence—and trusting to Almighty
God for the second.”
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“Human nature is the same in all professions.”
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Book I (1760), Ch. 1.
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Paris.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)
“God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.”
Maria. Compare: "Dieu mésure le froid à la brebis tondue" (translated: "God measures the cold to the shorn lamb"), Henri Estienne (1594), Prémices, etc, p. 47; "To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.
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my father gained half in half, and consequently was as well again off, as if it had never befallen him.
Book V, Ch. 3.
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“I believe in my conscience I intercept many a thought which heaven intended for another man.”
Book VIII, Ch. 2.
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“Ho! 'tis the time of salads.”
Book VII, Ch. 17.
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“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”
Book II (1760), Ch. 3.
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Book V, Ch. 42.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
Book III, Ch. 11.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it.”
The Pulse, Paris.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)
“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!”
In the Street, Calais.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)
Book V (1761-1762), Ch. 1.
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“Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause — and of obstinacy in a bad one.”
Book I, Ch. 17.
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Montreuil.
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Book III, Ch. 20.
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Book I, Ch. 19.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“Only the brave know how to forgive…A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.”
Sermons, Vol. I, No. 12 (1760).
Book II, Ch. 12 (Uncle Toby to the fly).
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand.”
Book I, Ch. 16.
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Book I, Ch. 1.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.”
Book I, Ch. 25.
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Book IV, Ch. 31.
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Book IX (1767), Ch. 10.
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