Who is Laurence Sterne
Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768), was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric who wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs, and indulged in local politics. He grew up in a military family travelling mainly in Ireland but briefly in England. An uncle paid for Sterne to attend Hipperholme Grammar School in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as Sterne's father was ordered to Jamaica, where he died of malaria some years later. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge on a sizarship, gaining bachelor's and master's degrees. While Vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire, he married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741. His ecclesiastical satire A Political Romance infuriated the chur...Read Full Biography of Laurence Sterne
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- I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
- Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
- So much of motion, is so much of life, and so much of joy, and to stand still, or get on but slowly, is death and the devil.
- Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
- People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
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Dealsonproducts: writers inspirational quotes writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure i think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. - laurence sterneUselesstree: unexpected confucius sighting: laurence sterne, tristram shandy, vol v, chap 25 (1762) , makes reference to confucius but perhaps only in a purposely mistaken way. a footnote by sterne says that the storyteller means someone else other than the real confucius. 1/
Kit_travieso: as time goes on i become more convinced every day that thomas pynchon is the literary progeny of laurence sterne: the humorous tone, the digressions, character names, etc.
Imogalore: writers inspirational quotes writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure i think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. - laurence sterne
Fraskyfizzle: writers inspirational quotes writing, when properly managed (as you may be sure i think mine is) is but a different name for conversation. - laurence sterne
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