First, Whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his Cre… - Laurence Sterne

First, Whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed.

Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story...

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.

So that whether the pain of a wound in the groin (cæteris paribus) is greater than the pain of a wound in the knee — or
Whether the pain of a wound in the knee is not greater than the pain of a wound in the groin — are points which to this day remain unsettled.