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attend to it as his main affair, and
not as a by-work.” “He must indeed.”
“The result, then, is that more things are produced, and better
and more easily when one man performs one task according to his nature, at
the right moment, and at leisure from other occupations.”
“By all means.” “Then, Adeimantus, we need
more than four citizens for the provision of the things we have mentioned.
For the farmer, it appears, will not make his own plough if it is to be a
good one,
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