"This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite."

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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.

— Laurence Sterne