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Nobody in any job spends 100 percent of his work time doing it, and that has long been so. In 1775, before the advent of the personal phone call or online shopping, Dr. Johnson observed: ‘It is wonderful, when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession. No man would be a Judge, upon the condition of being obliged to be totally a Judge.’ »Some comfort for slackers from Dr. Johnson in The Ethicist
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