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Research! Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.

— Benjamin Jowett

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Source: In conversation with Logan Pearsall Smith, as reported in Smith's Unforgotten Years (1938) p. 169
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