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Leslie Stephen Quotes

If you wish at once to do nothing and be respectable nowadays, the best pretext is to be at work on some profound study.
Leslie Stephen

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Date of Birth:
November 28, 1832
Date of Death:
February 22, 1904
Nationality:
English
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