An archive of printed words which have somehow struck a chord in me
19 Jan 2013
Certainly it was ordained as a scourge upon the pride of human wisdom, That the wisest of us all should thus outwit ourselves, and eternally forego our purposes in the intemperate act of pursuing them.
Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (Penguin Books, 1988) p. 369
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