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“Of all the riddles of a married life, said my father ... there is not one that has more intricacies in it than thisthat from the very moment the mistress of the house is brought to [child]bed, every female in it ... becomes an inch taller for it....
I think rather, replied my uncle Toby, that tis we who sink an inch lower.”
—Laurence Sterne (17131768)
“There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
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