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Leslie Stephen
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“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.”

Leslie Stephen Studies of a Biographer

Studies of a Biographer: Second Series (London: Duckworth, 1902) vol. 3, p. 261

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