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Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us,—the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man’s stature as to his happiness. - Laurence Sterne Attribution: Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), British author, clergyman. Sermons, sermon 44, “The ways of Providence justified to man” (1769), ed. Melvyn New, University Press of Florida (1996).

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Laurence Sterne

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• Sterne, Laurence (Literary Criticism (1400-1800))

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