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If any person given to reading were honestly to keep a register of all the printed stuff that he or she consumes in a year - all the idle tales of which the very names and the story are for gotten in a week, the book-maker's prattle about nothing at so much a sheet, the fugitive trifling about silly things and empty people, the memoirs of the unmemorable, and lives of those who never really lived at all - of what a mountain of rubbish would it be the catalogue! Exercises for the eye and the memory, as me chanical as if we set ourselves to learn the names, ages, and family histories of every one who lives in our own street, the flirtatious of their maiden aunts, and the circumstances surrounding the birth of their grandmother's first baby.
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