Laurence Sterne 
Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman [EPUB ebook] 

pub One.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Never 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’d thatch’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 man smiles, — but much more so, when he laughs, it adds something to this Fragment of Life.