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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne: where I do not take her divinityship and stick it.
But as the heart is tender, and the passions in these tides ebb and flow
ten times in a minute, I instantly bring her back again; and as I do all
things in extremes, I place her in the very center of the milky-way--
Brightest of stars! thou wilt shed thy influence upon some one--
--The duce take her and her influence too--for at that word I lose all
patience--much good may it do him!--By all that is hirsute and gashly! I
cry, taking off my furr'd cap, and twisting it round my finger--I would not
give sixpence for a dozen such!
--But 'tis an excellent cap too (putting it upon my head, and pressing it
close to my ears)--and warm--and soft; especially if you stroke it the
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