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Ло́ренс Стерн — английский писатель XVIII века. Широко известны его романы «Жизнь и мнения Тристрама Шенди, джентльмена» и «Сентиментальное путешествие по Франции и Италии». Будучи священником, он также опубликовал многочисленные проповеди, принимал участие в местной политической жизни. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. Ноябрь 1713 – 18. Март 1768
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„Жажда знаний, подобно жажде богатств, растет вместе с ее удовлетворением.“

«Жизнь и мнения Тристрама Шенди, джентльмена», том 2 (1760), глава 3
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

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“What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within the span of his little life by him who interests his heart in everything.”

Вариант: What a large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life by him who interests himself in everything.

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

Laurence Sterne книга The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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

“I begin with writing the first
sentence—and trusting to Almighty
God for the second.”

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“Human nature is the same in all professions.”

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“Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another?”

Laurence Sterne книга The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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“Keyholes are the occasions of more sin and wickedness, than all other holes in this world put together.”

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“I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.”

Laurence Sterne книга The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book I (1760), Ch. 1.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“We get forwards in the world not so much by doing services, as receiving them: you take a withering twig, and put it in the ground; and then you water it, because you have planted it.”

Laurence Sterne книга A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Paris.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

“God tempers the wind, said Maria, to the shorn lamb.”

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Maria. Compare: "Dieu mésure le froid à la brebis tondue" (translated: "God measures the cold to the shorn lamb"), Henri Estienne (1594), Prémices, etc, p. 47; "To a close-shorn sheep God gives wind by measure", George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

“I believe in my conscience I intercept many a thought which heaven intended for another man.”

Laurence Sterne книга The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book VIII, Ch. 2.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Ho! 'tis the time of salads.”

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

“The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.”

Laurence Sterne книга The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book II (1760), Ch. 3.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Our armies swore terribly in Flanders, cried my uncle Toby, — but nothing to this. — For my own part, I could not have a heart to curse my dog so.”

Laurence Sterne книга The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book III, Ch. 11.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it.”

Laurence Sterne книга A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

The Pulse, Paris.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

“I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!”

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In the Street, Calais.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

“Shall we be destined to the days of eternity, on holy-days, as well as working-days, to be showing the relics of learning, as monks do the relics of their saints — without working one — one single miracle with them?”

Laurence Sterne книга The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book V (1761-1762), Ch. 1.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Tis known by the name of perseverance in a good cause — and of obstinacy in a bad one.”

Laurence Sterne книга The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

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

“Tant pis and tant mieux, being two of the great hinges in French conversation, a stranger would do well to set himself right in the use of them before he gets to Paris.”

Laurence Sterne книга A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy

Montreuil.
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768)

“Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee? — This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.”

Laurence Sterne книга The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Book II, Ch. 12 (Uncle Toby to the fly).
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“Whistled up to London, upon a Tom Fool's errand.”

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Book I, Ch. 16.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

“The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.”

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Book I, Ch. 25.
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)

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