"In diesem Sinne mach ich aufmerksam auf einen Mann, der die große Epoche reinerer Menschenkenntnis, edler Duldung, zarter Liebe in der zweiten Hälfte des vorigen Jahrhunderts zuerst angeregt und verbreitet hat. An diesen Mann, dem ich so viel verdanke, werd ich oft erinnert, auch fällt er mir ein, wenn von Irrtümern und Wahrheiten die Rede ist, die unter den Menschen hin- und widerschwanken."
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Laurence Sterne
1713 – 1768
englischer Schriftsteller
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