Usage examples:
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In
the
month
of
June,
1840,
Lieutenant
Sturt
was
ordered
to
survey
the
passes
of
the
Hindoo
Koosh,
and
I
obtained
leave
from
my
regiment,
then
in
camp
at
Cabul,
for
the
purpose
of
accompanying
him;
my
object
was
simply
to
seek
pleasant
adventures;
the "
cacoethes
ambulandi"
was
strong
upon
me,
and
I
thirsted
to
visit
the
capital
of
ancient
Bactria;
the
circumstances
which
prevented
our
reaching
Balkh
will
hereafter
be
detailed,
but
the
main
object
of
the
expedition
was
attained,
as
Sturt
executed
an
excellent
map
of
the
passes
alluded
to,
and
satisfactorily
demonstrated
that
almost
all
the
defiles
of
this
vast
chain,
or
rather
group
of
mountains,
may
be
turned,
and
that
it
would
require
a
large
and
active
well-
disciplined
force
to
defend
the
principal
ones.
Rollo Burslem in "A Peep into Toorkisthhan".
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If,
however,
I
may
mention
my
own
small
experience
of
this
matter,
literary
talent,
or
at
all
events
authorship,
is
hereditary,
especially
in
these
days
of
that
general
epidemic,
the "
cacoethes
scribendi."
Martin Farquhar Tupper in "My Life as an Author".
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Had
our
learned
author,
the
modern
Sangerado,
confined
himself
to
facts
and
to
reasoning
on
the
constitution,
he
might
have
continued
to
write
without
interruption
from
its
opposers,
until
by
instructing
others,
he
had
obtained
that
instruction
which
he
seems
to
need,
or
a
temporary
relief
from
the
inenviable
malady,
the
cacoethes
scribendi;
but
his
frequent
misrepresentations
having
exposed
him
to
suspicions
that
as
a
disciple
of
Mandeville
he
was
an
advocate
for
vice,
or
that
to
correct
his
curiosity
some
humourist
has
palmed
on
him
a
spurious
history
of
the
proceedings
of
the
federal
convention,
and
exhibited
his
credulity
as
a
subject
of
ridicule,
it
is
proper
to
set
him
right
in
facts,
which,
in
almost
every
instance
he
has
misstated.
Paul Leicester Ford in "Essays on the Constitution of the United States".