Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
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.
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| Birth: | 28th November, 1832 |
| Death: | 22nd February, 1904 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Author, Critic, Mountaineer |
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