Date: 1785
"His mind was so full of imagery, that he might have been perpetually a poet."
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Date: 1785
"Meals are wished for from the cravings of vacuity of mind, as well as from the desire of eating."
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Date: 1785
"I have often experienced, that scenes through which a man has passed, improve by lying in the memory: they grow mellow."
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Date: 1785
"I answered I would not; and he applauded my setting such a value on an accession of new images in my mind."
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