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Excessive quietness. quotations examples
To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in overquietness, and no laboriousness in labour; and to tread a mile after the slow pace of a snail […] were a most tiring pennance, and worse than a race of some furlongs at the Olympicks.
1716, Thomas Browne, edited by Samuel Johnson, Christian Morals, 2nd edition, London: J. Payne, published 1756, pages 49–50