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Date: Tuesday, March 12, 1751
"There is no snare more dangerous to busy and excursive minds, than the cobwebs of petty inquisitiveness, which entangle them in trivial employments and minute studies, and detain them in a middle state, between the tediousness of total inactivity, and the fatigue of laborious efforts, enchant th...
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)