I think I can see the precise and distinguishing marks of national characters more in these nonsensical minutiæ than in the most important matters of… - Laurence Sterne

Cada uno hablará de la feria según le haya ido a su mercancía.

was I Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, brought forth into this scurvy and disastrous world of ours. — I wish I had been born in the Moon, or in any of the planets (except Jupiter or Saturn, because I never could bear cold weather) for it could not well have fared worse with me in any of them (though I will not answer for Venus) than it has in this vile, dirty planet of ours, — which o’ my conscience, with reverence be it spoken, I take to be made up of the shreds and clippings of the rest; — — not but the planet is well enough, provided a man could be born in it to a great title or to a great estate; or could anyhow contrive to be called up to public charges, and employments of dignity or power; — but that is not my case; — — and

Eğer dünya bir TÜZEL KİŞİ gibi dava edilebilseydi,-babam onu mahkemeye verip icabına bakardı.