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in doing this?Not at all.And you know you were not doing your own business, if writing and reading are doing something.Why, so they are.And indeed medical work, my good friend, and building and weaving and producing anything whatever that is the work of any art, I presume is doing something.Certainly.Well then, I went on, do you think a state would be well conducted under a law which enjoined that everyone should weave and scour his own coat, and make his own shoes, and his own flask and scraper,1
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1 The flask contained oil for anointing the body before exercise, and the scraper was for scraping it afterwards, or at the bath.
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vol. 8 translated by W.R.M. Lamb. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1955.
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