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For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.
Humor
Laurence Sterne

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In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Solitude
Laurence Sterne

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Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest.
Pursuit
Laurence Sterne

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Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
Amusement
Laurence Sterne

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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
Pain
Laurence Sterne

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Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Respectability
Laurence Sterne

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The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
Knowledge
Laurence Sterne

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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
Anecdotes
Laurence Sterne

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There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
Doctors
Laurence Sterne

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We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.
Complaints and Complaining
Laurence Sterne

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun