And further, my son, be admonished by these: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Not. I have had experience of all.
End. They can teach nothing farther. (Calmet)
--Tenet insanabile multos Scribendi cacoethes.
- (Juvenal, Sat. vii.)
Impious productions abound, while those which promote piety are too scarce. When the same truths are enforced, as those which the Scriptures contain, we cannot be accused of writing many books. (Origen, Philoc. v.) (St. Jerome)
Flesh. It ruins the health.