"Thus they load their minds with superfluous attention, repress the vehemence of curiosity by useless deliberation, and by frequent interruption break the current of narration or the chain of reason, and at last close the volume, and forget the passages and the marks together."
Idler, No 74
Samuel Johnson, <u>The Idler: In Two Volumes</u> (London: J. Newbury, 1761), 119-123. &lt;<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=piQJAAAAQAAJ">Link to Google Books</a>&gt;