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Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.

William Cobbett

The first moments of sleep are an image of death; a hazy torpor grips our thoughts and it becomes impossible for us to determine the exact instant when the ''I,'' under another form, continues the task of existence.

Gerard De Nerval

We still believe the U.S. economy is beginning to pick up speed but, near term, there is little to shift equities out of their summer torpor with the coming week relatively light on economic data.

Rupert Thompson