Laurence Sterne
Image Attribution: Joshua Reynolds (died 1792) (Public domain)
Image Attribution: Joshua Reynolds (died 1792) (Public domain)
—’Twas nothing,—I did not lose two drops of blood by it—’twas not worth calling in a surgeon, had he lived next door to us—thousands suffer by choice, what I did by accident.—Doctor Slop made ten times more of it, than there was occasion:—some men rise, by the art of hanging great weights upon small wires,—and I am this day (August the 10th, 1761) paying part of the price of this man’s reputation.
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