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-LSB- Illustration -RSB- -LSB- Illustration -RSB- HE was not asleep -- he was thinking . Sometimes , of course , it happened that slumber was induced by the position in which he placed himself ; slumber , however , was not his intent . He liked to rest after his midday meal and think . There was no real loss of time in it -- he had been at work since half-past five . His especial and striking characteristic was a very large , high , and noble forehead -- the forehead attributed to Shakespeare and seen in his busts . Shakespeare 's intellect is beyond inquiry , yet he was not altogether a man of action .