Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 24. November 1713 |
Geburtsort | Clonmel, County Tipperary, Ireland |
Todesort | London |
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Beschreibung | Laurence Sterne (24 November 1713 – 18 March 1768), was an Anglo-Irish novelist and Anglican cleric who wrote the novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, published sermons and memoirs, and indulged in local politics. He grew up in a military family travelling mainly in Ireland but briefly in England. An uncle paid for Sterne to attend Hipperholme Grammar School in the West Riding of Yorkshire, as Sterne's father was ordered to Jamaica, where he died of malaria some years later. He attended Jesus College, Cambridge on a sizarship, gaining bachelor's and master's degrees. While Vicar of Sutton-on-the-Forest, Yorkshire, he married Elizabeth Lumley in 1741. His ecclesiastical satire A Political Romance infuriated the church |
People who are always taking care of their health are like misers, who are hoarding a treasure which they have never spirit enough to enjoy.
Nothing is so perfectly amusing as a total change of ideas.
I take a simple view of life. It is keep your eyes open and get on with it.
People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.
The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.
