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

— Laurence Sterne , book The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book II, Ch. 17.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

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