The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

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    Nothing odd will do long. Tristram Shandy did not last.
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    As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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    I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we will have sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.
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    Sleep, beloved, such a sleep
    As did that wild Tristram know
    When, the potion’s work being done,
    Roe could run or doe could leap
    Under oak and beechen bough,
    Roe could leap or doe could run....
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