Quote by Laurence Sterne

"The true test of civilization is not the census, nor the size of cities, but the kind of man the country turns out."

Laurence Sterne
Novelist English 1713–1768

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"The world is so full of a number of things, I am sure we should all be as happy as kings."
"It is the nature of a man to love himself."
"Time is the rider that breaks youth."
"God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb."

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