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A provision of endless apparatus, a bustle of infinite inquiry and research, or even the mere mechanical labour of copying, may be employed, to evade and shuffle off real labour—the real labour of thinking.

Joshua Reynoldsverified·Discourse XII, in Fifteen Discourses Delivered in the Royal Academy·December 10, 1784