If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study. (Leslie Stephen)

If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.

Leslie Stephen

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