“Thinking is to me the greatest fatigue in the world.”

—  John Vanbrugh, The Relapse

The Relapse, Act II, sc. 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=lIQUAAAAQAAJ&q=%22Thinking+is+to+me+the+greatest+fatigue+in+the+world%22&pg=PA27#v=onepage (1697)

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