“Every man has some peculiar train of thought which he falls back upon when he is alone. This, to a great degree, moulds the man.”
“Nothing, in truth, has such a tendency to weaken not only the powers of invention, but the intellectual powers in general, as a habit of extensive and various reading without reflection.”
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