Miller wrote: “To dream of being intemperate in the use of your intellectual forces, you will seek after foolish knowledge fail to benefit yourself, and…”
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Intemperance · Heading 1056; source lines 12209–12219 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of being intemperate in the use of your intellectual forces, you will seek after foolish knowledge fail to benefit yourself, and give pain and displeasure to your friends.
If you are intemperate in love, or other passions, you will reap disease or loss of fortune and esteem. For a young woman to thus dream, she will lose a lover and incur the displeasure of close friends.
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