From Curiosities of Literature, by Isaac D'IsraeliCONVERSE
"We converse with the absent by letters, and with ourselves by diaries; but vanity is more gratified by dedicating its time to the little labours which have a chance of immediate notice and may circulate from hand to hand, than by the honester pages of a volume reserved only for solitary contemplation; or to be a future relic of ourselves, when we shall no more hear ourselves."
From Diaries -- Moral, Historical, and Critical
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