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 —A woman is quite a different thing—said the corporal.

—I suppose so, quoth my uncle Toby.

any thing in this world, which my father said, could have provoked my uncle Toby, during the time he was in love, it was the perverse use my father was always making of an expression of Hilarion the hermit; who, in speaking of his abstinence, his watchings, flagellations, and other instrumental parts of his religion—would say—tho' with more facetiousness than became an hermit—"That they were the means he used, to make his ass (meaning his body) leave off kicking."