I have sent you the Journal of a Senior Fellow, or Genuine Idler, just transmitted from Cambridge by a facetious correspondent.

Once in four-and-twenty hours, the witty and the dull are all overpowered by the gentle tyrant, and all lie down in the equality of sleep.

No man is so much open to conviction as the Idler, but there is none on whom it operates so little.

The desires of man increase with his acquisitions; every step which he advances brings something within his view, which he begins to want.

This was the first time that I found it thought criminal or dangerous to know how to read.

Three missives are submitted to the Idler.

Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be.

If you publish my letter, it may encourage others to tell their stories, which may be as useful as those of great ladies.

Every human being has an action graceful to his own eye, a voice musical to his own ear, and a sensibility which no other bosom can excel.

When man sees one of the inferior creatures perched upon a tree, or basking in the sunshine, without any apparent …

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