adams-john10 Neal Millikan
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Thursday April 7th. Since I wrote the foregoing lines I have not
had a moment of Time to spare for adding any thing to them. Yet I have
had nothing to do. Time slips unheeded away and yet upon looking back
there is little to afford pleasure in the retrospect. My present
situation is not over eligible: how to improve it is the subject which
most employs my mind. I have much leisure upon my hands, and my own
improvement seems to be the proper object of my pursuit.— This object I
have frequently before me, but I do not write with facility, and what is
worse, whenever I journalize, I soon grow disgusted with my own
egotism.
