If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now… - Leslie Stephen

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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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Sir Leslie Stephen KCB (28 November 1832 – 22 February 1904) was an English writer on philosophy and literary history. He was also one of the leading British mountaineers of his generation, the first editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, Thackeray's son-in-law and Virginia Woolf's father.

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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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