Quote#Work
If you wish at once to do nothing and to be respectable now-a-days,…
Quote byLeslie Stephen · 1832–1904
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Sketches from Cambridge (1865).
English (original)
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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