John Locke:
Of the Conduct of the Understanding
Edited by F. W. Garforth Classics in Education Series - No. 31
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Section 17. Desultory. Another fault of as ill consequence as this, which proceeds also from laziness with a mixture of vanity, is the skipping from one sort of knowledge to another. Some men's tempers are quickly weary of any one thing. Constancy and assiduity is what they cannot bear; the same study long continued in is as intolerable to them as the appearing long in the same clothes or fashion is to a Court lady.
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