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The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

The more tickets you have in a lottery, the worse your chance. And it is the same of virtues, in the lottery of life.

Laurence Sterne
Tickets, Chance, Virtue
Laurence Sterne (1795). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A.M. In Eight Volumes ..”, p.113

There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and engaging in themselves, than those of moderation and the forgiveness of injuries.

Laurence Sterne
Forgiveness, Exercise, Virtue
Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.409

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