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Though in one sense, our family was certainly a simple machine, as it consisted of a few wheels, yet there was this much to be said for it, that these wheels were set in motion by so many different springs, and acted one upon the other from such a variety of strange principles and impulses — that though it was a simple machine, it had the honour and advantages of a complex one — and a number of as odd movements within it, as ever were beheld in the inside of a Dutch silkmill.

— Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinion of Tristram Shandy, 1762