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Laurence Sterne Quotes: If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.
         

If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.


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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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