"Where there is no striking disparity, it is difficult to know of two which remembers most, and still more difficult to discover which read with greater attention, which has renewed the first impression by more frequent repetitions, or by what accidental combination of ideas either mind might have united any particular narrative or argument to its former stock."
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;