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‘This will make three hours’ reading; but I assure you that the labor it has cost me has whitened by hair.’ ‘This work has almost killed me,’ he wrote, after revising the final proofs, ‘I am going to rest; I shall labour no more.’ 💀💀💀 scumpuuuu

‘My work grows dull...I am overcome by weariness.’ my boy needs a careeer change 💔

' This research was lengthy and laborious.’
‘His toil was severe, his investigations slow and painful.'
“ I seem,” he remarked, “all at sea, and in a shoreless sea. All these cold, dry, tasteless, and difficult writings must be read, must be devoured...”
😭😭😭😭 he is sooooo me