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all alike but different. One man is
naturally fitted for one task, and another for another. Don't you think
so?” “I do.” “Again, would one man
do better working at many tasks or one at one?” “One at
one,” he said. “And, furthermore, this, I fancy, is
obvious—that if one lets slip the right season, the favorable
moment in any task, the work is spoiled.”
“Obvious.” “That, I take it, is because the
business will not wait upon the leisure of the workman, but the workman must
Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 5 & 6 translated by Paul Shorey. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1969.
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