• We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.

    Laurence Sterne: We are born to trouble; and we may depend upon it, whilst we live in this world, we shall have it, though with intermissions.
    Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.426