In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
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Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine they are the life, the soul of reading Take them out of this book, for instance, you might as well take the book along with them one cold external winter would reign in every page of it restore them to the writer he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids All-hail brings in variety, and forbids the appetite to fail.
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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
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