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You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or [online at](online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not)[ www.gutenberg.org](online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not)[. If you are not](online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not) located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.  \nTitle: The life and opinions ofTristram Shandy, gentleman  \nAuthor: Laurence Sterne  \nRelease date: October 1, 1997 [eBook \\#1079] Most recently updated: October 29, 2024  \nLanguage: English  \n[Other information and formats](Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1079)[:](Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1079)[ www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1079](Other information and formats: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1079)  \n[Credits](Credits: Sue Asscher)[: Sue Asscher](Credits: Sue Asscher), Stephen Radcliffe and David Widger  \n*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN ***  \nTHE  \nLIFE AND OPINIONS  \nOF  \nTR IS TRAM S HANDY, GENTLEMAN  \nby Laurence Sterne  \nContents  \nVolume I.  \nVolume II.  \nVolume III.  \nVolume IV.  \nΤαράσσει τοὺς Ἀνθρώπους οὐ τὰ Πράγματα,Ἀλλὰ τὰ περὶ τῶν Πραγμάτων Δόγματα.  \nTO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE  \nM r. P I T T.  \nS I R,  \nNEVER poor Wight of a Dedicator had less hopes from his Dedication, than I have from this of mine; for it is written in a bye corner of the kingdom, and in a retir ’dthatch’d house, where I live in a constant endeavour to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a mansmiles,——but much more so, when he laughs, it adds something to this Fragment of Life.  \nI humbly beg, Sir, that you will honour this book, by taking it—(not under your Protection,—it must protect itself, but)—into the country with you; where, if I am ever told, it has made you smile; or can conceive it has beguiled you of one moment’s pain—I shall think myself as happy as a minister of state;——perhaps much happier than anyone (one only excepted) that I have read or heard of.  \nI am, GREAT SIR,  \n(and, what is more to your Honour)  \nI am, GOOD SIR,  \nYour Well-wisher, and  \nmost humble Fellow-subject,  \nT H E AUT H O R.  \nTHE  \nLIFE and OPINIONS  \nOF  \nTRISTRAM SHANDY, Gent.  \nC HAP. 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