书城公版Of the Conduct of the Understanding
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第20章 Desultory

Another fault of as ill consequence as this,which proceeds also from laziness with a mixture of vanity,is the skipping from one sort of knowledge to another.Some men's tempers are quickly weary of any one thing.Constancy and assiduity is what they cannot bear;the same study long continued in is as intolerable to them as the appearing long in the same clothes or fashion is to a Court lady.