I spent a busy day today, but got little done. This is because I’m at last becoming perfect in the art of seeming busy, even when very tiny is going on in my head or under my hands. This is an art which every man learns, if he does not intend to work himself to death.

- Robertson Davies, “The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks”

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