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Quote by Lord Byron
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep,

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning — how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. – Lord Byron

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