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Updated: May 18, 2025

I dare say, quoth my mother But stop, dear Sir for what my mother dared to say upon the occasion and what my father did say upon it with her replies and his rejoinders, shall be read, perused, paraphrased, commented, and descanted upon or to say it all in a word, shall be thumb'd over by Posterity in a chapter apart I say, by Posterity and care not, if I repeat the word again for what has this book done more than the Legation of Moses, or the Tale of a Tub, that it may not swim down the gutter of Time along with them?

Laurence Sterne - The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman