As for the clergy — No — If I say a word against them, I'll be shot. — I have no desire, — and besides, if I had, — I durst not for my soul touch upo… - Laurence Sterne

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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me; had they duly considered how much depended upon what they were then doing; that not only the production of a rational Being was concerned in it, but that possibly the happy formation and temperature of his body, perhaps his genius and the very cast of his mind;—and, for aught they knew to the contrary, even the fortunes of his whole house might take their turn from the humours and dispositions which were then uppermost: Had they duly weighed and considered all this, and proceeded accordingly, I am verily persuaded I should have made a quite different figure in the world, from that, in which the reader is likely to see me.

Secondly, When a man, thus represented, tells you in any particular instance, — That such a thing goes against his conscience, — always believe he means exactly the same thing, as when he tells you such a thing goes against his stomach; — a present want of appetite being generally the true cause of both. ‘In a word, — trust that man in nothing, who has not a Conscience in every thing.