“The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.”

—  William Hazlitt, book The Spirit of the Age

&quot;Mr. Brougham — Sir F. Burdett&quot; http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_the_Age/Mr._Brougham-Sir_F._Burdett <br class="br">The Spirit of the Age (1825)

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