As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure t…

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As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1761). The Rambler: In Four Volumes, p.66
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As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas. ✨ Samuel Johnson (1761). The Rambler: In Four Volumes, p.66

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