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I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half…
Quote byLaurence Sterne · 1713–1768
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767), Book V, Ch. 42..
English (original)
I am convinced, Yorick, continued my father, half reading and half discoursing, that there is a Northwest Passage to the intellectual world; and that the soul of man has shorter ways of going to work, in furnishing itself with knowledge and instruction, than we generally take with it.
— Laurence Sterne
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