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Besides my daylight servitude, I served over again all night in my sleep, and would awake with terrors of imaginary false entries, errors in my accounts, and the like.
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Independently of the rigours of attendance, I have ever been haunted with a sense (perhaps a mere caprice) of incapacity for business.
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The phantom of the next day, with the dreary five to follow, sate as a load upon my poor Sabbath recreations.
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It is Lucretian pleasure to behold the poor drudges, whom I have left behind in the world, carking and caring; like horses in a mill, drudging on in the same eternal round--and what is it all for?
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Expect no healthy conclusions from me this month, reader; I can offer you only sick men's dreams.