“As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.”

—  Anthony Trollope

Letter to G W Rusden (8 June 1876), published in The Letters of Anthony Trollope (1983), p. 691

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