He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand…

Eric Metaxas
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He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his butterfly mind.
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He well knew his mind's natural tendency to be endlessly on a thousand subjects at once, to flit from this to that and to the next thing to no particular purpose--indeed, he called it his butterfly mind.

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