Laurence Sterne Quotes About Pain
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I am persuaded ... that both man and woman bear pain or sorrow, (and, for aught I know, pleasure too) best in a horizontal position.
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When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
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The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other.
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Pain and pleasure, like light and darkness, succeed each other; and he that knows how to accommodate himself to their periodical returns, and can wisely extract the good from the evil, knows only how to live: this is true contentment, at least all that is to be had of it in this world; and for this every man must be indebted not to his fortune, but to himself.
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