“Up! up! my friend, and quit your books,
Or surely you 'll grow double!
Up! up! my friend, and clear your looks!
Why all this toil and trouble?”

— William Wordsworth , The Tables Turned

The Tables Turned.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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English Romantic poet 1770–1850

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