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January 8, 2010
Be a scribe! It saves you from toil and protects you from all kinds of work. It spares you from using hoe and mattock, that you need not carry a basket. It keeps you from wielding the oar and spares you torment … Now the scribe, he directs all the work in this land.
— Tomb inscription at Memphis (Saqqara) ca. 2100 BC
Pointed out to me by Peter Kurth