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Date: September 1, 1759.
"If useless thoughts could be expelled from the mind, all the valuable parts of our knowledge would more frequently recur, and every recurrence would reinstate them in their former place."
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Date: September 1, 1759.
"The mind cannot retire from its enemy into total vacancy, or turn aside from one object but by passing to another."
preview | full record— Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784)