I know that these mental disturbances of mine are not dangerous and give no promise of a storm; to express what I complain of in apt metaphor, I am distressed, not by a tempest, but by sea-sickness.
Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
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