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“When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,prays without ceasing till his imagination is heated,fasts and mortifies and mopes, till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind; is it a wonder, that the mechanical disturbances ... of an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for [the] workings [of God].”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“Tis to rebuke a vicious taste which has crept into thousands besides herself,of reading straight forwards, more in quest of the adventures, than of the deep erudition and knowledge which a book of this cast, if read over as it should be, would infallibly impart.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
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