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I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.

Charles Lamb
Men, Smoking, Toil
On being asked 'how he had acquired his power of smoking at such a rate', in Thomas Noon Talfourd 'Memoirs of Charles Lamb' (1892) p. 262
I toiled after it, sir, as some men toil after virtue.