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Perhaps the highest of pleasures is that which we derive from private study, and the only circumstances under which the delights of literature are unalloyed are when it with draws from action, that is to say from toil, and can enjoy the pleasure of self contemplation.

“I would have the youthful mind run riot in the luxuriance of its growth.” (Cicero)