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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