The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple
operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very
nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to
exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing
difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit
of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is
possible for a human creature to become.
- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations
- Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry into the Nature & Causes of the Wealth of Nations
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