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Before an affliction is digested, consolation comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late; but there is a mark between these two, as fine, almost, as a hair, for a comforter to take aim at.
Before an affliction is digested, consolation comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late; but there is a mark between these two, as fine, almost, as a hair, for a comforter to take aim at.
Approximate historical placement: c. 1740 AD · early modern
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- Laurence Sterne
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- Approximate historical placement: c. 1740 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1713–1768)
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- Pearls of Thought (1881) (1881 AD)
Page 6 · printed citation: Sterne · subject: Afflictions
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