under-thinking

Updated: May 29, 2025

Why, I had fifty times rather cure an honest coal-heaver of a wound in his leg than give ten years more lease of life to a gouty lord, diseased from top to toe, who expects to find a month of Carlsbad or Homburg once every year make up for eleven months of over-eating, over-drinking, vulgar debauchery, and under-thinking."

Grant Allen - Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose