Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine; — they are the life, the soul of reading; — take them out of this book for instance, — you might as wel… - Laurence Sterne

Melek de değiliz; keşke olsak, ama insanlara birer beden giydirilmiştir, ve bizleri hayal güçlerimiz yönetir - ne şenlikli bir şölen.
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Gözler daha zarif bir okşama sağlar ve düş gücümüz üzerinde sözler kadar kolay ifadelendirilemeyen bir şeyler bırakır,-ya da,-bazen,var olanı da yok ederler.

No man cares to have his virtues the sport of contingencies—or one man may be generous, as another is puissant;—sed non quoad hanc—or be it as it may,—for there is no regular reasoning upon the ebbs and flows of our humours; they may depend upon the same causes, for aught I know, which influence the tides themselves: ’twould oft be no discredit to us, to suppose it was so: I’m sure at least for myself, that in many a case I should be more highly satisfied, to have it said by the world, “I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame,” than have it pass altogether as my own act and deed, wherein there was so much of both.

Now don't let us give ourselves a parcel of airs, and pretend that the oaths we make free with in this land of liberty of ours are our own; and because we have the spirit to swear them, — imagine that we have had the wit to invent them too.