Laurence Sterne Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768
Birthday: November 24
Death: March 18
There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an utter insensibility of what becomes of the fortunes of their fellow-creatures, as if they were not partakers of the same nature, or had no lot or connection at all with the species.
source: Laurence Sterne (1873). “The Works of Laurence Sterne ...: With a Life of the Author”, p.26, London : Bickers, H. Sotheran
topic: Selfishness, Connections, Matter, Insensibility
