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Book I, Ch. 6 http://books.google.com/books?id=COoNAAAAQAAJ&q=%22as+we+jogg+on+either+laugh+with+me+or+at+me+or+in+short+do+any+thing+only+keep+your+temper%22&pg=PA19#v=onepage. <br class="br">The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“A man should know something of his own country too, before he goes abroad.”

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Book VII (1765), Ch. 2.
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“For every ten jokes, thou hast got a hundred enemies.”

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Book I, Ch. 12.
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“The Accusing Spirit which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blush'd as he gave it in; and the Recording Angel as he wrote it down, dropp'd a tear upon the word, and blotted it out forever.”

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Book VI (1761-1762), Ch. 8. Compare: "But sad as angels for the good man’s sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in", Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, part ii, line 357.
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“I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma — let him get off as he can.”

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Book IV (1761-1762), Ch. 26.
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“Great wits jump.”

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Book III (1761-1762), Ch. 9. Compare: "Great wits jump", John Byrom, The Nimmers; Earl of Buckingham, The Chances, act. iv, scene 1; "Good wits jump", Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, part II, ch. 38.
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“I am sick as a horse.”

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Book VII, Ch. 11.
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“In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. ”

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“Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, cried my uncle Toby, — but nothing to this.”

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For my own part, I could not have a heart to curse my dog so.
Book III, Ch. 11.
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“Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee?”

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This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
Book II, Ch. 12 (Uncle Toby to the fly).
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“A man who laughs will never be dangerous.”

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The Passport, Versailles.
Original: (fr) Un homme qui rit, said the duke, ne sera jamais dangereux.
Source: A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

“A man my good Sir, has seldom an offer of kindness to make to a woman, but she has a presentiment of it some moments before.”

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The Remise, Calais.
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“I was at peace with the world before, and this finish’d the treaty with myself.”

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Calais.
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