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Quotation from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
“so long as a man rides his HOBBY-HORSE peaceably and quietly along the King’s highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him,—pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?”
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Vol. I, Ch. 7 (Project Gutenberg text)
Tristram defends the harmless enthusiasms of the wise and foolish alike before introducing his family's hobby-horses.
Citation: "so long as a man rides his HOBBY-HORSE peaceably and quietly along the King’s highway, and neither compels you or me to get up behind him,—pray, Sir, what have either you or I to do with it?" — Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Vol. I, Ch. 7 (Project Gutenberg text). (id sterne-tristram-shandy-q1)
Portrait: Laurence Sterne by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Joshua Reynolds, Public domain.
