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72. Obsession
"I wish there were some cure, like the lover's leap, for all heads of which some single idea has obtained an unreasonable and irregular possession."
Boswell: Life
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391. Obsession
"Scarcely any degree of judgment is sufficient to restrain the imagination from magnifying that on which it is long detained."
Johnson: Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's Islands
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1,389. Obsession; Progress
"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
Johnson: Rambler #177 (November 26, 1751)
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