Wish I'd said that - September 25, 2020

“The amusements of mankind, at least of the English part of mankind, teach the same lesson. Our shooting, our hunting, our traveling, our climbing have become laborious pursuits. It is a common saying abroad that ‘an Englishman’s notion of a holiday is a fatiguing journey’…”

Walter Bagehot Physics and Politics [the “lesson” being about our inherited, possibly excessive predisposition to action]