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Laurence Sterne

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Laurence Sterne

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Birthday: November 24, 1713

Death: March 18, 1768

Educated At: Jesus College

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: United Kingdom

Occupations: Autobiographer, Religious Servant, Novelist, Writer

Religion: Anglicanism

Total quotes: 1

“Yorick had an invincible dislike and opposition in his nature to gravity;—not to gravity as such;—for where gravity was wanted, he would be the most grave or serious of mortal men for days and weeks together;—but he was an enemy to the affectation of it, and declared open war against it, only as it appeared a cloak for ignorance, or for folly: and then, whenever it fell in his way, however sheltered and protected, he seldom gave it much quarter.”

— Tristram Shandy, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Tagged: Tristram Shandy, gravity, Yorick, affectation

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