"He who wounds me" exclaims an animated writer, “ injures my body only: but he who wearies me assassinates my soul.” And he who wearies himself needs to be placed under a system of mental dietetics.

— Ernst, Baron von Feuchtersleben The Dietetics of the Soul; Or, True Mental Discipline (1838)

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