"Therefore, my dear friend and companion, if you should think me somewhat sparing of my narrative on my first setting out,--bear with me,--and let me go on, and tell my story my own way:--or if I should seem now and then to trifle on the road,--or should sometimes put on a fool's cap with a bell to it, for a moment or two as we pass along,--don't fly off,--but rather courteously give me credit for a little more wisdom than appears upon my outside;--and as we jogg on, either laugh with me, or at me, or in short, do any thing,--only keep your temper." - Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
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