Quite possibly the longest sentence I have ever encountered in my
adult life

"He bid me observe it, and I should always find that the calamities of
life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but
thatthe middle station had the fewest disasters, and was exposed to so
many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind; nay, they
were not subjected to so many distempers and uneasiness either of the
body or the mind, as those were who, by vicious living, luxury, and
extracagancies on one hand, or by hard labor, want of necessities, and
mean or insurficient diet on the other hand, bring distempers upon
themselves by the natural consequences of their way of living; that
the middle station of life was calculated for all kinds of virtues and
all kind of enjoyments; that peace and plenty were the handmaids of a
middle fortune; that temperance, moderation, quietness, health,
society, all agreeable diversions, and all desireable pleasures, were
the blessings attending the middle station of life; that this way men
went silently and smoothly through the world, and comfortably out of
it, not embarrassed with the lahore of the hands or of the head, not
sold to the life of slavery for daily bread, or harassed with
perplexed circumstances, which rob the soul of peace and the body of
rest; not enraged with the passion of envy, or secret burning lust of
ambition for great things; but in easy circumstances sliding gently
through the world, and sensibly tasting the sweets of living, without
the bitter; feeling that they are happy, and learning by every day's
experience to know it more sensibly. "

Daniel Defoe "Robinson Crusoe"

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