Word: surfeits
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Dates: during 1877-1877
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...fifth, and twenty-sixth cantos of the Inferno were read to an audience of five students and four outsiders; while a few weeks before a multitudinous concourse of three - including a library clerk - assembled to hear a reading from Faust. It may be that we are now having a surfeit of lectures and readings; but it certainly seems that those who fail to attend our evening readings are neglecting their opportunities in a way which they will be sorry for hereafter...
...Yankee, they imitate that indifference to their hearts' content. Forgetting that their models have tasted almost every dish that life offers, they finally fall into a state not unlike that of the worn-out creatures whom they imitate. And they mistake the weakness of starvation for the inertia of surfeit...