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What is the life of man? Is it not to turn from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation and unbutton another?
What is the life of man? Is it not to turn from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation and unbutton another?
Approximate author period: c. 1740 AD · early modern
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- Laurence Sterne
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- Approximate author period: c. 1740 AD · early modern
author lifetime midpoint (1713–1768)
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 100 · printed citation: Sterne (Tristram Shandy). · compiler notes excluded
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