The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

I am a Turk if I had not as much forgot my mother, as if Nature had plaistered me up, and set me down naked upon the banks of the river Nile, without one.

-- -- -Your most obedient servant, Madam -- I've cost you a great deal of trouble, -- I wish it may answer; -- but you have left a crack in my back, -- and here's a great piece fallen off here before, -- and what must I do with this foot? -- -- -I shall never reach England with it.